Defending Families: Abolitionist Work in Child Welfare Family Policing (Co-Sponsor: The National Lawyers Guild)
4/24
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2025-04-24 12:15:00
2025-04-24 13:20:00
Defending Families: Abolitionist Work in Child Welfare Family Policing (Co-Sponsor: The National Lawyers Guild)
Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/defending-families-abolitionist-work-child-welfare-family-policing-co-sponsor-national
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University of Chicago Law School
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Room F
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Room F
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the University community
Presenting student organizations: Education and Child Advocacy Society
Presenting student organizations: Education and Child Advocacy Society
Madeline Townsend is a member of the board of directors for the National Lawyers Guild Chicago chapter. She works as a public defender in the family defense unit within the Cook County Public Defender’s Office. She will be coming, along with a friend from the Cook County Public Guardian’s Office, to talk about the child welfare system, defending families and parents in court, abolition, family policing, and other related topics.