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Monthly
News Highlights
October,
1998
LAW CENTER MEETS WITH POLICE DISTRICT COMMANDERS
In the late summer, Baltimore City Police Department District Commanders met
at the Community Law Center for a working lunch. Spearheaded by Law Center
paralegal, Bryan Alston to help promote partnerships between the Law Center
legal teams and the corresponding police districts, discussion focused on
strategies to improve communications between the Law Center and district offices
so that information may be shared. Law Center Executive Director, Anne
Blumenberg, explained the police's crucial role of gathering evidence to support
drug nuisance abatement actions filed by community associations.
FRANKLIN SQUARE
Law Center attorney Steve Buvel helps end drug dealing at West
Fairmount Street property.
After a police raid and arrest at a West Fairmount Street property used as a
stash house and to sell drugs, Law Center attorney Steve Buvel and the Franklin
Square Community Association worked with the property owner to communicate to an
elderly tenant that the tenant's drug dealing son must be removed from the
property. Both the property owner and the tenant were subject to legal action if
the son was not removed. This was accomplished with both Mr. Buvel's and the
community association's support. At the same time, Mr. Buvel worked with the
tenant's grandson to introduce him to Echo House for drug counseling.
Meeting with HABC Produces Results
Joined by Myrtle Summers, President of the Franklin Square Community
Association, Steve Buvel met recently with Clayton Tucker, Director of the Rehab
Housing Program at HABC and property manager for HABC-owned properties. The
issue of vacant properties being used as stash houses and shooting galleries
were addressed. Within a few days of the meeting, the identified properties were
boarded and secured. In addition, Mr. Tucker was notified of a nuisance tenant
at a HABC property on West Baltimore Street. Presenting the tenant with a
neighborhood petition and offering him counseling, Mr. Tucker warned the tenant
of possible eviction proceedings
SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE
Southwest Communities, Boyd Booth, Carrollton Ridge Association and
Fayette Street Outreach Work as a Team
Kristine Dunkerton, Law Center staff attorney, and Shirley Dendy, paralegal
for Southwest Baltimore neighborhoods, were unanimously accepted as members of
the HotSpots core team for the Southwest Cluster. As HotSpots core team members,
Kristine and Shirley meet each week with police officers, parole and probation
officers, Col. Ronald Daniel and other representatives from the Mayor's
Coordinating Council on Criminal Justice. As a team, members share information
regarding nuisance properties in Southwest Baltimore and coordinate their
efforts at abating nuisances and criminal activity in the Southwest Cluster.
MILL HILL/CARROLLTON RIDGE
City Park Comes Back to Life
The Mill Hill Improvement Association and the Carrollton Community
Association are working together to update the physical design of the Catherine
Street Community Park. Better known as the ABC Park, it borders both
communities, and is now safer and more community friendly.
Community Law Center attorneys, Valerie Green (Mill Hill) and Kristine
Dunkerton (Carrollton Ridge) have been working closely with Irene Poulson of the
Neighborhood Design Center to make the community plans a reality. Thanks to the
cooperation of Recreation & Parks, DPW and HCD, this once blighted area has
been transformed into a clean and safe green space that includes a sprinkler
park, baseball diamond, and other playground equipment for the two communities
to engage in sports and recreation while providing a safe atmosphere for the
children.
EAST BALTIMORE
Ashland Avenue Children's Wall Mural Helps to Energize Community
Law Center Pro Bono Project Director, Amelia Lazarus, is making community art
projects a priority in her pro bono neighborhoods. Assisted by artist, Dorsey
Boyle, the two have spent hours cleaning a vacant lot and organizing
neighborhood children to create a wall mural at 900 N. Montford Avenue. To date,
Dorsey has completed one seascape mural with the youth, has excavated, poured
cement, and painted a baseball diamond upon the lot, and is working with the
youth to create a second mural depicting the road of life.
Look for more community art projects. Dorsey and Amelia are planning a new
project in Butchers Hill at the corner of E. Fairmont and N. Duncan Streets. The
Maryland State Arts Council has awarded the Community Law Center a mini-grant to
support the community art projects.
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