IMLA

PFAS Settlement Discussion
2023-10-10 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
If you care to take part in this call or working group, please email amorris@imla.org.
This call is intended to provide a forum for discussion about the proposed 3M and Dupont settlements.
Attached as well is the link www.pfaswatersettlement.com previously provided by our colleague Sara Gross at the City of Baltimore, which includes an extensive Q&A about the settlement processes/timing/required filings, and links to many of the significant documents in the litigation, from complaints to the settlement agreements.
On the call will be Stephanie Biehl, a partner at Sher Edling, a member of the PFAS Plaintiffs Executive Committee. She will not be providing advice but should be helpful in assisting us to better understand the settlement agreements and the various options facing local governments.

DEI Book Club Meeting
2023-10-11 15:00 - 16:00
If you care to take part in this call or working group, please email dshahnami@imla.org.
Join us September 13th from 3-4 pm ET to discuss From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America from Elizabeth Hinton. This hour will discuss the content of the book with those who read it and a general discussion on the topic that may include people who did not read it.
Amazon Synopsis: In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the “land of the free” become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America’s prison problem originated with the Reagan administration’s War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.
Johnson’s War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans’ role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act empowered the national government to take a direct role in militarizing local police. Federal anticrime funding soon incentivized social service providers to ally with police departments, courts, and prisons. Under Richard Nixon and his successors, welfare programs fell by the wayside while investment in policing and punishment expanded. Anticipating future crime, policymakers urged states to build new prisons and introduced law enforcement measures into urban schools and public housing, turning neighborhoods into targets of police surveillance.
By the 1980s, crime control and incarceration dominated national responses to poverty and inequality. The initiatives of that decade were less a sharp departure than the full realization of the punitive transformation of urban policy implemented by Republicans and Democrats alike since the 1960s.

Police Alternatives Working Group Call
2023-10-17 14:00 - 15:00
If you care to take part in this call, please email cstorer@imla.org.

Code Enforcement Working Group Call
2023-10-30 15:00, 2023-11-27 15:00, 2023-12-25 15:00, 2024-01-29 15:00, 2024-02-26 15:00

Counties Meeting
2023-11-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-03 15:00 - 16:00
If you care to take part in this call or working group, please email cstorer@imla.org.

Homelessness Working Group Conference Call
2023-11-02 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-07 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-04 14:00 - 15:00

New Lawyers Group Meeting
2023-11-06 14:00 - 15:00
If you care to take part in this call or working group, please email dshahnami@imla.org.

Elected Attorney Meeting
2023-11-13 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-08 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-12 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-11 14:00 - 15:00

Small/Rural Communities Working Group Call
2023-11-20 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-15 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-18 14:00 - 15:00

Police Alternatives Meeting
2023-11-21 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-19 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-16 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-20 14:00 - 15:00

Diversity Working Group Call
2024-01-24 15:00

World Cup Working Group Call
2024-02-14 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-13 14:00 - 15:00
If you care to take part in this call, please email amorris@imla.org.
