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Two community forums regarding the Department of Justice consent decree are scheduled for this month. The first will be held on Tuesday, August 15 at the Baltimore City Community College’s Fine Arts Auditorium. The second will be on Wednesday, August 16, at Morgan State University’s Student Center. Both forums will be held from 6-8pm. Additional […]

Members of the OSI-Baltimore-funded Coalition for a Safe and Just Maryland (CSJM) have made series of media appearances in recent weeks, renewing the fight for bail reform months after the state legislature turned back an attempt by the bail industry to roll back the unanimous state appeals court ruling requiring judges to consider non-financial pretrial conditions […]

Yesterday, civic leaders from Baltimore and around the country came to North Avenue’s Parkway Theater to discuss pressing urban policy issues including blight and drug addiction as part of The Atlantic’s CityLab Baltimore conference. OSI-Baltimore was a proud underwriter of the event. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Johns Hopkins grad, opened up the […]

Recently, members of the OSI-funded BRIDGES Coalition were featured on WMAR to advocate for keeping treatment clinics in Baltimore City. Members of the coalition, responding to Mayor Pugh’s suggestion earlier this summer that treatment centers are the source of neighborhood violence, argue that taking treatment centers out of the neighborhoods that need them most would […]

Tonight, 36 Baltimore City students participating in the Baltimore Young Writers’ Summer Studio will gather at the Impact Hub to interview politicians, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and others to write profiles that will be published in a September issue of City Paper. The Summer Studio is a program of Writers in Baltimore Schools, a project started by […]