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All four candidates running for Maricopa County Attorney have completed and returned a candidate questionnaire created by the ACLU of Arizona Campaign for Smart Justice. Read their responses and make an informed vote.

On January 30, five candidates running for Maricopa County Attorney made their case to voters during the first candidate town hall of the election cycle.

A poll shows that likely Arizona voters from a variety of political backgrounds want a reform-minded county attorney.

This Briefing Book for county attorney candidates outlines a number of policy reforms that lay out a pathway to ending mass incarceration and racial injustice in the criminal legal system.

Gov. Doug Ducey recently appointed former Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to the Arizona Supreme Court despite his controversial history and the fact that he has no judicial experience.

In a brazen display of unchecked power and influence, Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk censored a public defender by keeping him from sharing with Arizonans how much influence she and her fellow county attorneys have at the state Legislature.

In a brazen display of unchecked power and influence, Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk censored a public defender by keeping him from sharing with Arizonans how much influence she and her fellow county attorneys have at the state Legislature.

The ACLU of Arizona has verified this anonymous letter was written inside Perryville Women’s Prison. The letter was written in honor of Marcia Powell, who died inside Perryville ten years ago this month.

Montgomery has blocked effective, commonsense criminal justice reform proposals from becoming law in part by criticizing them as having “no data to support” them, and as being “pet projects” “based on myths and rhetoric.”