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April 2021

On our South Carolina Places that Help page, we updated 56 Courthouse Locations.

We updated and reorganized our Minnesota State Gun Laws section to make it more state specific and easier to use. This change is in English, but Spanish is coming soon! We also added six related statutes to our Selected Minnesota Statutes section. 

We added three crimes to our Minnesota Crimes page. 

March 2021

On our Nebraska Places that Help page, we updated 135 resources as follows: 1 Statewide Programs, 26 Local Programs, 14 Legal Assistance, 1 Lawyer Referral Services, 93 Courthouse Locations. We also added 4 organizations to our Local Programs page and 1 new Courthouse Location. All changes were made in English and, for the first time, all resources were translated into Spanish!

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