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Objectives

Grassroots Engagement

Partner with and assist community-based organizations and leaders to advance a reflective vision of justice in their communities, empowering them to lead their neighbors in evaluating and electing candidates based on a thorough review of their professional and electoral records.

Grassroots Engagement
Public Education

Provide resources and tools to communities to help them better understand the criminal justice system and the role that system actors play within it. We equip communities with the necessary means to track, monitor, and evaluate candidates for elected office who impact the local criminal justice systems.

Public Education
Policy Research and Advocacy

Working with coalition allies and strategic partners, where possible, we identify problems and advance research, analysis, and commentary to promote healthier, thriving communities by reorienting local criminal justice systems to the needs of the communities they serve.

Policy Research and Advocacy
Strategic Communications

Utilize digital and creative strategies to advance a reform-minded vision of justice and public safety, aimed at empowering communities to elevate their voices in the national dialogue around the future of pretrial justice in America, including structural, systematic change in how system actors, like prosecutors and sheriffs, should function in a twenty-first century criminal justice system.

Strategic Communications
Impact Litigation

When necessary, act in the courts to bring down structural barriers to the fair and equitable application of the law for all accused individuals by system actors who violate constitutionally protected rights.

Impact Litigation

Strategies

Independent Investigations

Bail Reform

Accountability for Constitutional Violations

Redefining Success

Training

Diverse Hiring

Data Collection and Transparency