by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Media Coverage, Policy Spotlights
November 26, 2025 Original GBH Article Link FILE – A man works on his legal documents. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a routine state close-out budget Tuesday that will make court proceedings to legally change one’s name more private. John Moore Getty...
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Media Coverage, Statements
November 11, 2025 Original Dorchester Reporter Link By Hema Sarang-Sieminski In the spring of 2025, thousands of court-appointed defense attorneys in Massachusetts, known as bar advocates, made headlines when they stopped taking on new cases to protest compensation...
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Media Coverage, Statements
November 6, 2025 Original MassLive Article Link By Hema Sarang-Sieminski Views expressed here represent those of the author and not necessarily of MassLive or The Republican. Readers are invited to share their opinions by emailing to letters@repub.com. Every day in...
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Media Coverage
October 23, 2025 Original GBH Article Link State Rep. Natalie Blais speaks at a Beacon Hill rally on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025 calling for lawmakers to restore state funding cut from programs serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Katie Lannan GBH News...
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Media Coverage
October 6. 2025 Original MassLive Article Link By Daniel Jackson | djackson@repub.com The Trump administration has paused putting conditions on grants given out to help crime victims based on whether a state assists with federal immigration enforcement. A spokesperson...
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Media Coverage
Phillip Martin October 07, 2025 Link to original GBH article Human trafficking survivors at a safe house in Worcester, Mass. Staff members say people are more desperate now than they were a year ago. Phillip Martin GBH News Donald Trump pledged on the campaign...
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Statements
Link to WPRI On Air Interview with JDI Associate Director of Communications Ren Liu
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Media Coverage
Jul. 22, 2025 – Original Article Link in MassLive WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department this week ordered states, local governments and non-profits not to use existing federal grant funds to provide legal services to immigrants in the...
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Media Coverage
June 20, 2025 – Original Article Link NORTHAMPTON — In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Wednesday to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, locally based Transhealth is sending a clear message to its patients and the...
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Media Coverage
June 20, 2025 – Original Article Link NORTHAMPTON — Safe Passage is just one of many organizations that rely on federal funding caught between a rock and a hard place — between going through a funding desert, or risking being penalized for misuse of federal...
by jdi-admin | Aug 11, 2026 | Press Release, Statements
BOSTON, MA – June 24, 2026 – Jane Doe Inc. (JDI), the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, in partnership with the Boston Public Health Commission and the City of Cambridge’s Domestic and Gender Based Violence Prevention Initiative,...
