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Group Begins Watching Maine State District Court Activities
June 2022
Under an initiative launched by a state representative and Colby College professor, college students and other volunteers are visiting courtrooms in Augusta, Waterville and Skowhegan, recording and documenting court arraignments and post summaries of the outcomes on Twitter. By mid June 2022, the volunteers observed 100 arraignments in Kennebec County.
Co-founder Winifred Tate, an anthropology professor and director of the Maine Drug Policy Lab at Colby College said, this effort is especially important “because most courts in the state don’t keep online records. And most cases are settled through plea deals.”
Read more about this June 21, 2022 story from NPR:
Read more about this initiative in the June 23, 2022 Portland Press Herald Story:https://www.pressherald.com/2022/06/23/group-watching-central-maine-courts-seeks-trained-volunteers-eyes-release-of-fall-report/
Read more about the activities of CourtWatchME at https://www.courtwatchme.org/home