http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:46:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/19/longtime-pro-choice-activist-killed-in-crash/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/19/longtime-pro-choice-activist-killed-in-crash/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:42:53 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=27794 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/19/longtime-pro-choice-activist-killed-in-crash/feed/ 1 Errin Vuley, a longtime activist for women's causes, was killed Tuesday http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/08/28/wendy-whitaker-symbol-of-flawed-sex-offender-law-rearrested/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/08/28/wendy-whitaker-symbol-of-flawed-sex-offender-law-rearrested/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:50:56 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=24368 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/08/28/wendy-whitaker-symbol-of-flawed-sex-offender-law-rearrested/feed/ 11 Wendy Whitaker, the subject of a 2006 CL cover story about Georgia's sex offender law, has been arrested for failing to register a new address http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/21/wendy-whitaker-faces-thanksgiving-day-eviction/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/21/wendy-whitaker-faces-thanksgiving-day-eviction/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:03:43 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9656 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/21/wendy-whitaker-faces-thanksgiving-day-eviction/feed/ 2 Wendy Whitaker, lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Georgia's sex offender law, faces eviction from her home on Thanksgiving Day. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/17/sex-offender-suit-fails-to-keep-plaintiff-out-of-prison/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/17/sex-offender-suit-fails-to-keep-plaintiff-out-of-prison/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:00:00 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9265 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/17/sex-offender-suit-fails-to-keep-plaintiff-out-of-prison/feed/ 1 Georgia Supreme Court rules against a challenge to the state sex-offender law; appellant heads off to prison. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/13/wendy-whitaker-faces-eviction-under-court-ruling/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/13/wendy-whitaker-faces-eviction-under-court-ruling/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:36:59 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9152 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/13/wendy-whitaker-faces-eviction-under-court-ruling/feed/ 9 Federal judge clears way for registered sex offender Wendy Whitaker to be evicted from her home – again. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/03/add-it-up-poor-man%e2%80%99s-probation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/03/add-it-up-poor-man%e2%80%99s-probation/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:31:56 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=8421 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/03/add-it-up-poor-man%e2%80%99s-probation/feed/ 0 Study: Georgians charged with misdemeanors pay to the extreme when they can't afford their fines. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/indigent-defense-on-trial-tomorrow/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/indigent-defense-on-trial-tomorrow/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:59:35 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/indigent-defense-on-trial-tomorrow/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/indigent-defense-on-trial-tomorrow/feed/ 0 Lawyers from the Southern Center for Human Rights will be in court Thursday morning arguing that cuts made by the state have gutted the system to provide public defenders to the indigent. The Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, which was formed in 2003 to handle indigent defense all over the state, hasn’t been fully funded since [...]