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Step-by-Step Guide to Drafting Your Own Community Safety Policy at the State Level

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2022

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Civil Rights Corps

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Safety

A Community Safety Policy is a policy agenda that shifts the concept of “safety” from a primarily criminal-legal model to a new framework that roots safety in public health and makes investments in non-carceral solutions. This guide outlines four steps states can take to create their...

Joint Statement from Elected Prosecutors on Reproductive Rights

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2022

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source Fair and Just Prosecution

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Health

Elected prosecutors from various regions issued a joint statement expressing concerns about the Supreme Court's decision to end the federally protected constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade. They argue that enforcing abortion bans would erode trust in the legal...

Community Voices: Barriers to Voting For California's Formerly Incarcerated

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

In addition to disenfranchising people through law and policy, felony disenfranchisement laws create additional barriers to voting. The complexity of these laws and a lack of awareness about them have caused confusion and misinformation among formerly incarcerated communities as well...

Preventing and Mitigating Police-Involved Violence

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source State Innovation Exchange

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Public Safety, Civil Rights

Alarming rates of police brutality and abuse of power persist across U.S. cities and states, with 987 people shot and killed by law enforcement officers in 2017 alone. Victims of police-involved violence are disproportionately people of color, and a quarter of victims struggle with...

Colorado Resolution 18-1002 Eliminating slavery as a punishment for a crime

Type Act or Session Law

Year 2018

Level State

State(s) Colorado

Source State of Colorado

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

The Colorado constitution currently allows slavery as punishment for a crime. This house resolution seeks to amend the constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in all circumstances. The amendment does not disallow opportunities for convicted individuals to work but will prohibit...

Dobbs Was Not The Beginning: A Guide on Pregnancy Criminalization

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year -

Level City or Town, County, National, State

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Health

With the Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade, people who self-manage abortions are coming under increased attack from the criminal legal system, deportation system, and family service agencies. This guide examines how self-managed abortions (SMA) are prosecuted and provides...

Policing + Transit

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

Many transit agencies apply an overly punitive approach to minor transgressions. For example, this report argues that current methods of fare enforcement are too harsh. Fare evasion should be decriminalized, and the penalties should be made proportional to the severity of offense....

An Organizer’s Guide to Confront Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools in Decarceration Campaigns

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights

Risk assessment tools (RATs) are decision-making rubrics that make predictions; they utilize a multitude of tools to make predictions about a defendant’s statistical likelihood, or “risk,” of not returning to court or being rearrested if released. Ultimately, RATs greatly influence...

No More Shackles: Ten Arguments Against Pretrial Electronic Monitoring

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Media Justice

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Public Safety

This report outlines ten arguments against the use of pretrial electronic monitoring. It describes how monitoring restricts a person's ability to earn income; reduces access to legal resources and due process; limits participation in parenting and caregiving, increases the risk of...

A Social Media Toolkit: For Organizing and Advocacy to End Mass Criminalization and Incarceration

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety

Storytelling on social media has become a powerful tool to shift public narratives in the movement to end mass criminalization. However, if misused, improper storytelling runs the risk of perpetuating narratives that reinforce, rather than work to dismantle, the criminal justice system....

On the Road to Freedom: An Abolitionist Assessment of Pretrial and Bail Reforms

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice

Each year, about half a million individuals are incarcerated because they cannot afford bail, even though they remain innocent until proven guilty. This report examines pretrial and bail reforms, including eliminating cash bail for misdemeanors, establishing pretrial release as the...

2020 San Francisco Ordinance 123-20 Prohibiting Revenue Collection from Incarcerated Individuals

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Board of Supervisors

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice

This ordinance prohibits the city from making contracts or agreements with jail facilities that allow it to generate revenue from the sale of goods and services to inmates. It also explains how the city has previously generated funding through heavily marked up prices on phone calls...

So You Want to Courtwatch?

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights

For decades, advocates, activists, and organizations have deployed courtwatching as a tactic to achieve a wide variety of outcomes, such as ensuring a more transparent criminal legal system, reporting on judges or prosecutors, gathering information for a campaign, providing individual...

The Case Against Pretrial Risk Assessment Instruments

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Pretrial Justice Institute

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Safety

Pretrial risk assessment instruments (RAIs) are tools intended to estimate two key outcomes for those who are released pending trial: the likelihood that someone will fail to appear for court, and the likelihood that someone will be arrested for a new crime before the disposition...

Transparency is Not Enough: A Framework for Building Campaign Strategy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year -

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety, Health

Activists, organizers, and reformers often demand transparency from the criminal legal system because of the harm the system inflicts behind closed doors—particularly upon Black and Brown, poor, LGBTQ, and immigrant communities. For organizers working to dismantle the criminal legal...

Guidelines for Respecting the Rights of Individuals on Electronic Monitors

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Media Justice

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Public Safety

This brief establishes guidelines for the implementation of electronic monitoring. In order to respect the human rights of those being monitored, rules for electronic monitoring should be transparent and accommodate basic daily needs without imposing unnecessary restrictions; monitoring...

2) 2023 New York City Ordinance 1252 Establishing a Task Force Addressing Housing for Incarcerated Transgender Individuals

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2023

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source City of New York

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice, Housing

Transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex individuals often face uninformed or discriminatory practices at the hands of public institutions. This ordinance establishes a task force to address policies related to the treatment of current or formerly incarcerated individuals within...

Ending the Criminalization of Failure-to-Appear: An Organizers’ Guide to Demanding Court Changes in the Time of COVID-19

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights

Before COVID-19 became a global pandemic, missing a court date, a check-in with parole or probation, a day of community service, or a court-mandated treatment program could and frequently did result in people being jailed. However, during the early days of the pandemic, most states...

Preventing Sexual Assault and Supporting Survivors

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level County

State(s) All States

Source SiX Action

Policy Areas Housing, Public Safety, Health, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education, Children & Families

Sexual assault is an intensely personal, devastating crime with far-reaching impacts in our communities. It is common, destructive, and nobody should be traumatized by navigating their next steps for safety and healing. One in five women will experience sexual assault while in college,...

2011 Cook County Policy for Responding to ICE Detainers

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2011

Level County

State(s) Illinois

Source Cook County Board

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety

This ordinance requires the Sheriff of Cook County to decline ICE detainer requests unless there is written agreement stating that all costs incurred by Cook County in complying with the ICE detainer shall be reimbursed. It also prohibits ICE agents from accessing individuals or County...

Local Options for Protecting Immigrants: A Collection of City and County Policies to Protect Immigrants from Discrimination and Deportation

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Housing, Public Safety

In response to President-elect Donald Trump's promise to deport two to three million immigrants when he takes office, many cities and counties across the United States are seeking to enact local policies (often referred to as "sanctuary" or "welcoming") to protect their immigrant...

The Challenge & Promise of Reentry in Municipalities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County, National, State

State(s) All States

Source National League of Cities

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Safety

Cities must support strong and effective reentry programs. This report highlights the benefits of reentry programs such as reduced crime, reduced victimization, and stronger communities. It recommends partnering with institutions of higher education, collaborating with judiciary and...

No More Shackles: Why We Must End the Use of Electronic Monitors for People on Parole

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Media Justice

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Public Safety

This report calls for the elimination of the use of monitoring for individuals on parole. It argues that electronic monitoring is an extension of incarceration that is ineffective, expensive, and greatly limits the freedom and potential success of people on parole. Further, its expansion...

Scan of Pretrial Practices

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Pretrial Justice Institute

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Data & Technology, Democracy & Governance, Public Safety

This report compares, critiques, and provides an overview of pretrial practices across the United States. In particular, it discusses how 89 counties differ (or relate) in using citation releases, bond schedules, pretrial assessment tools, and more. It also outlines shared concerns...

Abolitionist Principles & Campaign Strategies for Prosecutor Organizing

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety

"The following is a framework that seeks to draw out what “prosecutor organizing” looks like with an abolitionist lens. The first section outlines principles to hold us accountable to each other, so that there is shared agreement about what abolition means in organizing around prosecutors....

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