ProGov21 Policy Library

Municipal Action Guide: Responding to Racial Tension in Your City

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source National League of Cities

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development

This guide provides contextual and tactical information for local leaders preparing to address racial tension in their municipality. In particular, it defines five common values (empathy, transparency, authenticity, collaboration, and consistency) that must always be embedded in responses...

Using Government Procurement to Advance Racial Equity

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement

Governments can promote racial equity through procurement and contracting reforms that increase vendor diversity and expand racially equitable service outcomes. This report outlines successful case studies and best practices for developing equitable procurement strategies and recommends...

Schools For All Campaign: The School Bias and Pushout Problem

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2008

Level City or Town, School District, School Board

State(s) California

Source American Civil Liberties Union of California

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Education

Oftentimes, schools are ill-equipped to address bias and harassment by students against one another. This failure creates an environment that alienates and ostracizes students, ultimately leading them to leave school. This report discusses various approaches that could be used to...

The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town, State, National

State(s) All States

Source Center on Privacy & Technology

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety, Data & Technology

Face recognition is the automated process of comparing two images of faces to determine whether they represent the same individual. Across the country, law enforcement performs face identification to identify individuals who refuse to identify themselves, compare mugshots against...

Mayoral Views on Racism and Discrimination

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source National League of Cities

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Democracy & Governance

This report draws on the 2017 Menino Survey of Mayors to explore how mayors of medium-sized and large cities understand race, discrimination, and equity in their communities. It highlights three key findings: mayors believe that immigrants, transgender individuals, Black people, and...

Big Business Bias: Employment Discrimination and Sexual Harassment at Large Corporations

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level State, National

State(s) All States

Source Good Jobs First

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Public Safety

An examination of federal and state court records shows that the vast majority of large corporations throughout the U.S. economy have made payments to plaintiffs in at least one employment discrimination or harassment lawsuit since the beginning of 2000. These include individual and...

Addressing Segregation and Unequal Access to Opportunity in California with Affordable Housing Investments: A Path Forward for a Comprehensive Approach

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level State

State(s) California

Source California Housing Partnership

Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice, Housing

Racial segregation has blocked access to housing and pathway to homeownership. This report argues that to address this injustice, California must make substantial efforts to distribute funding to mitigate the racial wealth gap, through policy focused on increasing housing choice and...

The Critical State of Black Women's Health

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2022

Level State

State(s) All States, Arkansas

Source Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families

Policy Areas Health

This report provides an overview of the issues affecting Black women's health, including systemic racism, discrimination, and implicit bias within the health care system. It offers the following recommendations: create policies with an intentional racial equity lens, expand Medicaid...

Injustice at Every Turn: A Report on the National Transgender Discrimination Study

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source National Center for Transgender Equality

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

This report investigates the discrimination transgender individuals face in education, employment, housing, public accommodations, health care, prisons, in the family, and when updating ID documents. By surveying 6,450 transgender and gender non-conforming study participants, the...

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...

Ending Jim Crow in America's Restaurants: Racial and Gender Occupational Segregation in the Restaurant Industry

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States, California

Source U.C. Berkeley Food Labor Research Center

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Food, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This report evaluates race and gender discrimination in the the restaurant industry. It examines wage differentials and hiring promotion discrimination....

Eviction Prevention: A Guide for Local Governments

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source National League of Cities

Policy Areas Housing

Eviction prevention involves laying the foundation for systems that will foster housing stability for communities in the long-term. This report shares recommendations to local governments looking to build a successful eviction prevention strategy that is responsive to community needs....

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...

Risks and Challenges for Inclusive and Equitable Immersive Experiences

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level National

State(s) All States

Source Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

Policy Areas Data & Technology

Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) has the potential to transform the way individuals work, learn, and interact, by allowing employees to collaborate from anywhere in the world, making critical services such as healthcare and education more accessible, and creating new channels...

The Corporate Culprits Receiving COVID Bailouts

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State, National

State(s) All States

Source Good Jobs First

Policy Areas Economic Justice

More than one million businesses and non-profit organizations have been identified as recipients of grants and loans awarded through the Paycheck Protection Program and other provisions of the CARES Act. Good Jobs First has determined that more than 43,000 of those recipients have...

Building a Bigger We: Changing Hearts & Minds on Immigration in Rural and Small-Town America

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State

State(s) Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania

Source People's Action

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development

U.S. Gallup polls indicate that individuals living in rural and small-town communities have a hostile view towards immigrants in the United States. In 2019 People’s Action launched a campaign in Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania with the goal of “building a bigger we”, or...

Equitable Development as a Tool to Advance Racial Equity

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Government Alliance on Race and Equity

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Housing

This report sets equitable development goals that are focused on reducing racial inequity. It also identifies strategies, policies, and tools that local governments can adopt to meet these goals. These include increasing housing choices for communities of color; revitalizing underserved...

Race, Sex, and Social Equality Roadmap

Type Roadmap

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source ProGov21

Policy Areas Children & Families, Civil Rights, Economic Justice

Centuries of political, legal, and economic discrimination against women and people of color have entrenched inequality in the United States. ProGov21's Race, Sex, and Social Equality Roadmap outlines steps local governments can take to address the root causes of racial and gender...

Updated Position on Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Pretrial Justice Institute

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Data & Technology, Public Safety

This document is a statement from the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) updating their stance on the use of Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools (RAIs). PJI opposes the use of pretrial RAIs when making detention decisions and determining restrictions placed on a person's pretrial liberty...

Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Government Alliance On Race And Equity

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice

Racial equity tools are designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decision making. The racial equity tool presented in this report includes a set of questions that local governments can ask themselves to ensure that equity is incorporated in the development,...

Delivering Hate: How Amazon’s Platforms Are Used to Spread White Supremacy, Anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level National

State(s) All States

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Civil Rights

Through an examination of Amazon’s various platforms and services, this report reveals that for growing racist, Islamophobic, and anti-Semitic movements, the breadth of Amazon’s business combined with its weak and inadequately enforced policies provides numerous channels through which...

Increase Public Safety and Advance Racial Justice by Repealing Juvenile Curfews

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Local Progress

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Safety

Roughly three-quarters of American cities have juvenile curfew laws that criminalize youth for being in public spaces during late night and school hours. These laws disproportionately punish black and brown youth and low-income families. This policy brief argues that juvenile curfew...

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...

Cameras in the Classroom: Facial Recognition Technology in Schools

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State, School District, National

State(s) All States

Source University of Michigan: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Policy Areas Education, Data & Technology

Facial recognition in schools risks amplifying and institutionalizing existing racial biases (resulting in disproportionate surveillance and humiliation of marginalized students), normalizing surveillance, and commodifying student data. This report strongly recommends that facial...

Austin’s Big Secret: How Big Tech and Surveillance Are Increasing Policing

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source Mijente

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Data & Technology

This brief examines the relationship between tech companies, city projects, and increases in policing and surveillance of Austin residents. It begins by analyzing local policing initiatives like the Austin Regional Intelligence Center and noting contracts held by local law enforcement...

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