ArchCity Defenders

The St. Louis County municipal court system has a new website that developers believe will help reduce arrests of people who don’t show up to court, but…

Florissant has become the 16th north St. Louis County municipality to face a federal lawsuit for jailing defendants simply because they couldn't pay a…

Quinton Thomas saw firsthand what the criminal justice system looked like in St. Louis County municipalities. And what he witnessed wasn’t pretty.The…

Lawyers who are leading the effort to reform the municipal courts in St. Louis, tell of injustices they have witnessed in the courts and callous…

The Justice Department has neither the authority nor the staffing to expand its investigation of unconstitutional police and court practices from Ferguson…

Officials from most of St. Louis County's 82 municipal courts got their first look Friday at proposed reforms designed to respond to concerns about the…

In the limbo between Michael Brown’s death and the grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the state of the Ferguson Police Department became…

In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations, according to documents filed…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 30, 2009 - When 2010 begins, the holistic legal advocacy group ArchCity Defenders will move into…