{"id":104053,"date":"2023-09-11T14:53:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=104053"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:24:23","slug":"debbie-freitas","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/debbie-freitas\/","title":{"rendered":"Debbie Freitas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Debbie Freitas<\/strong> is a Legal Training Attorney in the Children and Family Law Division of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, the public defender service of the Commonwealth. She has a JD from Northeastern University School of Law, an MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine, and a BA from Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Deb has represented indigent parents and children since 2010, having previously served as a staff attorney in the CPCS Youth Advocacy Division and in private practice on various CPCS Trial and Appellate Panels. She continues to maintain a small caseload focused on holistically representing indigent parents, children, and young adults in their care and protection, child requiring assistance, delinquency, and youthful offender cases at the trial and appellate level, as well as school discipline and special education matters.<\/p>\n<p>She has served on the board of several organizations and committees, including the Greater Lowell Bar Association, Lawrence Bar Association, MBA Juvenile and Child Welfare Section and DEI Committee, CPCS CAFL Racial Justice Task Force, and as a member of the SJC Court Improvement Program Training Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Deb has presented at local, state, and national legal conferences regarding family defense and youth justice. She serves as part-time faculty at Boston University School of Law where she co-teaches the Health Justice Practicum, a medical-legal partnership with BMC\u2019s Project RESPECT. She has provided comments for the <em>Boston Globe<\/em>, <em>WBUR\/NPR<\/em>, <em>Commonwealth Magazine<\/em>, and provided legislative testimony on bills impacting children and families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20326,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/104053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20326"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/104053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127365,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/104053\/revisions\/127365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}