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Save-the-Date
LARRP General Membership Meeting
July 12, 2012
9:30 a.m. to 12 noon
Location to be announced
The ACLU will present their report "Public Safety Realignment: California at a Crossroads" at the July 12th membership meeting. Join us to hear this and updates in AB 109 realignment implementation.
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Policy Corner
Defeating the City of Los Angeles Proposed Community Care Licensing Ordinance
Live on June 6th, www.stopccfo.org will provide a space where people can visit for information, advocates can find toolkits to present the opposing point of view to their stakeholders, and we will be keeping a running tab of where Councilmembers stand. We also will be listing meeting dates and advocacy opportunities- such as a neighborhood council meeting schedule. Need something to help convince people that this proposed ordinance is WRONG? The attached flyer gives you a way to make the points in language we can all understand! Click here for flyer! |
Vacancy Announcement
The Council of State Governments Justice Center is hiring a Deputy State Division Director, Operations in the Seattle office. The Justice Center is a national nonprofit organization that provides practical, nonpartisan advice and consensus-driven strategies, informed by available evidence, to increase public safety and strengthen communities. In general, the Justice Center works closely with legislative leaders, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, victim advocates, and others to develop consensus on various, often highly politicized, criminal justice issues and to translate this consensus into comprehensive reports, policy briefs, state and federal legislation, model policies, and innovative programs.
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LARRP Reentry Service Provider Directory
Another Survey??!!!
And, a long one at that! We wouldn't be asking for your help in completing this survey if it wasn't important. Unless you can tell us differently, there isn't a comprehensive list of reentry service providers in Los Angeles County. And we need one desperately!
LARRP needs it to inform the entire community about capacity development and advocacy opportunities and Los Angeles County needs it to keep all of us up-to-date as the County assumes more and more responsibility for community reintegration.
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| ACLU Releases Report
Public Safety Realignment: California at a Crossroads
The ACLU of California has released a report focused on a series of policy recommendations aimed to help public policy makers take advantage of state prison realignment to tackle complex criminal justice challenges by implementing policies and practices based on evidence.
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County Auto-Enrolling General Relief Recipients into Healthy Way LA
Beginning June 1st, Los Angeles County is automatically enrolling General Relief participants into the Healthy Way LA healthcare program. As a result, a birth certificate will no longer be required for most people born in the U.S. Information packages with insurance cards will be sent to the address that DPSS has for each person. In many cases that will be the local DPSS office.
Go to http://www.ladhs.org/wps/portal/HWLA for further information including a list of healthcare clinics that will become "medical homes" for HWLA participants. Note that the Member Handbook can be found on this website. |
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Impact of Prison Realignment in Los Angeles in the News...
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Both the national and local press have been covering California's prison realignment and its impact on Los Angeles. Below are links to two recent articles:
Amity Foundation Featured inChristian Science Monitor US prison inmates returning to society: How will they be received? States, eager to save money and adopt alternatives to incarceration, release inmates in record numbers. Is society ready for the surge?
By Sean J. Miller, Correspondent Los Angeles Jason Corralez donned a freshly pressed collared shirt. He had shaved neatly around his salt-and-pepper goatee. He looked like a man about to go on a job interview, which he was. It was a job he desperately wanted, but one question gnawed at him: Would they be willing to hire a convicted murderer? Click here for link to complete article
Los Angeles Times
L.A. police oversight of parolees causing friction
Shift in responsibility for ex-convicts from state to local agencies due to budget crunch spurs, anger, confusion.
By Jason Song
The first four times Pamela Morris was released from prison, she would go to her state parole officers or they would occasionally make unannounced solo visits to make sure she wasn't committing new crimes. More...
Click here to link to complete article
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Gang Conference Report
On May 21 and 22, the Violence Prevention Coalition and Hospitals Against Violence, Empowering Neighborhoods hosted a two-day conference exploring youth and gang violence as a public health issue rather than a crime issue. With oversold crowds and speakers and panelists representing over 50 organizations, policymakers, law enforcement, funders, elected officials, and community leaders at the forefront of youth violence prevention and intervention, community empowerment, criminalization of youth, hospital-based prevention, and more.
LARRP Steering Committee members were represented on two panels, addressing issues of reentry and reintegration, particularly for gang-involved and formerly gang-involved youth returning from incarceration.
The energy at the conference was tremendous and palpable. Moving forward, VPC will be facilitating and supporting ongoing follow up meetings and small gatherings to draft a policy agenda for next years conference.
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