Treatment, Not Imprisonment
Allow judges to order a person to get help for an addiction, but prohibit courts from sending a person to jail just for relapsing.
This legislative session, we have a broad docket of legislation, covering issues like voting rights, criminal law reform, digital privacy, immigrants' rights, and reproductive justice.
Download a list of our 2021 Legislative priorities here.
Find our 2019-2020 Legislative session priorities archived here.
Allow judges to order a person to get help for an addiction, but prohibit courts from sending a person to jail just for relapsing.
Enable individuals to seek redress when government actors violate their civil rights, whether or not the violation is accompanied by “threats, intimidation or coercion.”
Establish a comprehensive state data privacy law for the 21st century.
Convene a commission of experts to study the use and potential bias of computer-aided government decision-making on matters from criminal justice to child welfare.
Eliminate parole conditions that perpetuate systemic racism, and eliminate automatic reincarceration for technical violations of parole conditions that do not warrant a new arrest.
Keep families connected by ending the sky-high cost of prison telephone and video calls.