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September 2024

In our California Custody section, we created the following three new questions (Spanish coming soon):

We also added four related statutes to our Selected California Statutes page.

We restructured the Crimes page for Idaho by creating a chart that lists the crime names on one side and the statute numbers on the order side. Now, users can sort crimes alphabetically, making it easier to find crimes by name, or they can sort them according to how they appear in the statutes.

We added three locations of the Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington to our Maryland Local Programs page in English and Spanish.

We added two locations of the Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington to our Virginia Local Programs page in English and Spanish.

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