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COVID-19 Response Guidance for Community Bail & Bond Funds

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2020

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Spaces, Public Safety, Health

People in prisons, jails, and immigration jails are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks. Given the inherent high risk of all incarceration settings, this statement argues that the best protection for these individuals is release for everyone in the custody of federal prisons,...

Smart Borders or a Humane World?

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, State, National

State(s) All States

Source Immigrant Defense Project

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety, Data & Technology

Smart borders involve the expanded use of surveillance and monitoring technologies including cameras, drones, biometrics, and motion sensors to stop unwanted migration and track migrants. This report details some of the more prominent deployments of smart-border technologies. Beyond...

Invest, Democratize, Organize: Lessons on Building More Equitable Cities From Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) North Carolina, Tennessee

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Community Development, Housing

Citywide development that uses traditional business practices, which have historically benefitted from and perpetuated racialized inequality, can threaten to displace the most disadvantaged communities. This report provides tools and resources for groups that are advocating for more...

Decarceration During COVID-19: A Messaging Toolkit for Campaigns for Mass Release

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Health

Incarcerated people in the United States’ jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers are at an unacceptable risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19. This document provides some guidance and tools for families, organizers, and advocates who are demanding their decarceration...

Immigration Roadmap

Type Roadmap

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source ProGov21

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice

Although US immigration policy is regulated at the federal level, local governments still play a role in protecting the rights of immigrants, regardless of their citizenship status, and promoting their economic and social incorporation. ProGov21's Immigration Roadmap calls on local...

War Brought Us Here: Organizing for Sanctuary through an Anti-War Lens: A Toolkit

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source Institute for Policy Studies

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

This toolkit is designed to help strengthen the sanctuary and refugee rights movements by providing a platform to look at and strengthen sanctuary campaigns and policies through an anti-war lens. The goal is to highlight the role of the U.S.’ actions in producing migration; the multiple...

1989 San Francisco Sanctuary City Ordinance No. 375-89

Type Ordinance

Year 1989

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source City and County of San Francisco

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

An ordinance declaring San Francisco to be a sanctuary city and outlining prohibitions on obligating funds toward deportation-related purposes. In particular, no department, agency, commission, officer, or employee of the City and County of San Francisco shall use any City funds or...

Undocumented Driver Licenses

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level County

State(s) All States

Source SiX Action

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

Providing undocumented immigrants access to driver's licenses has become a focus of many immigrants' rights organizations and of communities that recognize the important role immigrant residents play as part of these communities. Progressive proponents of providing access to driver's...

Free College For All: Organizing Guide

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source People's Action

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Education

The higher education system is a major force in economic, racial, and gender inequality that serves the pockets of corporations and the ultra-wealthy. This report delves into the principles, membership, and strategies of Student Action, a group devoted to utilizing direct action,...

The Detention Drain: How Immigration Detention Hurts New Mexico's Economy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) New Mexico

Source Institute for Policy Studies

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

The criminalization of immigration through policies such as the “Zero Tolerance” policy has swelled the numbers of people in U.S. detention centers. Recent reports have exposed the inhumane conditions in these centers, including those that have caused dozens of deaths. Many people...

Ensuring Health and Justice for Undocumented Boys and Men of Color

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health

The health and well-being of undocumented boys and men of color are vital to the future of California. State and local lawmakers must make the lived experiences of undocumented boys and men of color a focal point of health care, immigration, criminal justice, and education policiy....

Building Tomorrow’s Workforce: Promoting the Education & Advancement of Hispanic Immigrant Workers in America

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2007

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Corporation for a Skilled Workforce

Policy Areas Education

In spite of overwhelming odds, some immigrants with minimal academic credentials are finding their way to college, entering post-secondary programs and earning credentials that provide them with the skills required to get and keep good jobs. They are doing so with the assistance of...

2012 New York City Initiative 800

Type Ordinance

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source New York City Council

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

This initiative prohibits bias-based profiling by officers, which includes using certain personal factors such as race, color, ethnicity, national origin, immigration or citizenship status, socioeconomic status, or other defined characteristics as a basis of suspicion for unlawful...

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...

San Miguel County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Type Ordinance

Year 2010

Level County

State(s) Colorado

Source San Miguel County Detention Center

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety, Children & Families

This policy prohibits staff at the San Miguel County Detention Center from asking detainees about their immigration status or place of birth. It also outlines procedures for when an ICE detainer is received for the detainee....

Sanctuary Not Deportation: A Faithful Witness to Building Welcoming Communities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, National

State(s) All States

Source Faith in Action

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Spaces, Public Safety

Sanctuary is a tool that provides a place of refuge and safety to those facing deportation. This report provides a brief history of the Sanctuary movement and outlines the resurgence of the Sanctuary movement under the Trump Administration. Additionally, this report calls for the...

2010 King County Ordinance 16948 Advancing Equity and Justice

Type Ordinance

Year 2010

Level County

State(s) Washington

Source King County Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

The ordinance, in order to achieve the 'fair and just principle' embedded within the countywide strategic plan, requires that equity and justice be applied to every county action. The ordinance establishes an inter-branch team to facilitate accountability of and coordination by all...

Connecticut’s Excluded Communities: Key Findings from a COVID-19 Community Impact Survey

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, State, National

State(s) Connecticut

Source The Center for Popular Democracy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Housing, Health

Connecticut’s Latinx and immigrant communities are being disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Make the Road Connecticut (MRCT) launched an impact survey to more fully understand key issues facing people of color and immigrants related to employment, housing, health,...

The War Against Immigrants: Trump’s Tech Tools Powered by Palantir

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level State, National

State(s) All States

Source Mijente

Policy Areas Data & Technology

With the willing collaboration of Silicon Valley, the Trump administration has accelerated and expanded its crackdown on migrant communities. Companies like Palantir, Amazon, Salesforce, and dozens of others have pursued federal government contracts to arm agencies like Immigration...

Essential and Excluded: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Impacting Immigrant Families

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2021

Level State, National

State(s) Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania

Source The Center for Popular Democracy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Health

Organizers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and North Carolina conducted interviews with over 900 Latinx immigrants (including nearly 400 undocumented community members) about the important issues facing immigrant communities during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Deportation Defense Guide for the Faith Community: Lifting Up Individual Deportation Cases in the Trump Era

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, State, National

State(s) All States

Source Faith in Action

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Public Safety

One of the many ways to help a person facing deportation is to lift up their case publicly. The major organizing objectives of publicly lifting up an individual case are to connect the individual person’s imminent deportation and story to the larger local, regional and national immigration...

Immigrants and the Economy: Contribution of Immigrant Workers to the Country's 25 Largest Metropolitan Areas

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2009

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Fiscal Policy Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This report examines the economic role of immigrants in the 25 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. The report finds that the immigration and economic growth of metro areas go hand in hand; immigrants contribute to the economy in proportion to their share of the population....

Community Bail Funds as an Organizing Tool: A Primer for Exploring the Tactic

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Community Justice Exchange

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development

This document is intended for organizers, legal advocates, and organizations contemplating starting a bail fund as an intervention in the criminal legal and/or immigration detention systems. The first part of the document poses core exploratory questions to consider before starting...

Recognizing the Threats: Congress Must Impose a Moratorium on Law enforcement Use of Facial Recognition Tech

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level National

State(s) All States

Source Center for Democracy & Technology

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Data & Technology

Law and immigration enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology presents many harmful consequences: it permits invasive tracking and targeting that threatens individual privacy, prevents First Amendment activities (i.e. political protests and religious activities), relies on...

The 2018 Kinder Houston Area Survey: Tracking responses to income inequalities, demographic transformations, and threatening storms

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Education, Housing, Public Safety, Energy, Health, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Transportation & Mobility

This report examines Houston attitudes about flooding, education, the local economy, equal opportunity, immigration, sex and gender, climate change, and trust....

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