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Tucson School Board reviewing the SRO program and school safety strategies.

Tucson

ACTORS

School Board

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

Police Free Schools

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AB 1215: The Body Camera Accountability Act stops police from adding facial recognition and other biometric surveillance tech to body cameras.

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ACTORS

Governor, State Senate

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

Technology/Surveillance

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AB 1332 "The Sanctuary State Contracting and Investment Act" would bar local and state agencies in California from contracting with companies that provide data brokering or data processing tools to ICE and CBP.

ACTORS

California Legislature

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

None

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AB 937 - The VISION Act would prevent tax dollars from being used to transfer community members from local jails and state prisons to immigration detention.

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ACTORS

State Legislature

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

ICE

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AB-118 C.R.I.S.E.S. Grant Pilot Program would ensure that 90% of funding from the C.R.I.S.E.S. Act for crisis first response would go to community-based organizations instead of law enforcement.

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ACTORS

State Legislature

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

Community Based Safety Strategy

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AB-988 The Miles Hall Lifeline Act would establish a 988 suicide and mental health crisis hotline to connect callers to mental health workers instead of police.

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ACTORS

State Legislature

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

Community Based Safety Strategy

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Berkeley City Council passed budget with $9.2 million cut from police.

Berkeley

ACTORS

City Council, Mayor

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

Budget/Reinvestment

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Berkeley City Council passed proposal to use unarmed employees of new equity-focused Berkeley Department of Transportation (BerkDOT) to make traffic stops instead of Berkeley Police officers.

Berkeley

ACTORS

City Council

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

Community Based Safety Strategy

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California State legislature passed the C.R.I.S.E.S. (Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems) - Act AB 2054. This bill will create a pilot grant program for community-led interventions to crises involving mental health, homelessness, domestic abuse.

ACTORS

State legislators

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

None

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Due to community organizing, LAPD scrapped its predictive policing program LASER and its use of “Chronic Offender Bulletins,” which assigns a “score” to persons on the COB list according to gang affiliation, parole/probation status, arrests, or other “quality” police contact.

Los Angeles

ACTORS

LAPD

RESOURCE TYPE

Policy/Legislation

TOPICS

Technology/Surveillance

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