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February 20, 2025 | Blog Post | Kaelin Rapport

Fighting Fires through Coercion: The Criminalization and Exploitation of Black Laborers

By Kaelin Rapport

June 16, 2024 | News Clip | Clarence Okoh

The School (in)Security Newsletter: Hackers Hawk Stolen LAUSD Files; Parkland HS Demolished; Swatter Sentenced

By Mark Keierleber  (EXCERPT) ‘New Jim Code’: Federal officials have failed to deter the civil rights harms that artificial intelligence in schools poses to students of color, a new report argues. | The Center for Law and Social Policy Read the full article here. 

April 26, 2024 | News Clip | Jesse Fairbanks

Forced Treatment and Criminalization Won’t End Homelessness

By Jesse Fairbanks In late April, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an important case regarding homelessness. Grants Pass v. Johnson will decide whether the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, violated the constitutional rights of people experiencing homelessness by fining or arresting them…

March 19, 2024 | Blog Post | Deanie Anyangwe

Are We Listening? Youth Mental Health Challenges are Rooted in Community Violence

Policymakers must adopt a more nuanced understanding of the roles systemic divestment, place-based disadvantage, anti-Black racism, racial capitalism, mass criminalization and other critical factors have in driving community violence.

June 7, 2023 | Blog Post | Teon Hayes

To Help Returning Citizens Rebuild Their Lives, Congress Must Lift the SNAP Felony Drug Ban

Congress should prioritize repealing the SNAP felony ban by passing the RESTORE Act and ensuring the repeal is included in the Farm Bill reauthorization.

March 9, 2023 | Press Release | Indivar Dutta-Gupta

President Biden’s FY2024 Budget Calls for Bold Investments in Families While Missing the Mark on Immigration and Criminal Justice Reforms

This statement can be attributed to Indivar Dutta-Gupta, President and Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social Policy Washington, D.C., March 9, 2022—President Biden released his FY 2024 budget today, outlining his priorities for federal investments in the health, wellbeing, and economic security…

October 26, 2022 | Blog Post | Deanie Anyangwe

Safer for Whom? The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Does Not Actually Keep Communities Safe

For years, there has been a consistent outcry for gun control and other measures to keep the people of this nation safe. However, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act does not do that. 

September 8, 2022 | News Clip

I Grew Up In Foster Care—Here’s What I Wish Parents Knew

This article cites CLASP's Foster Care to Prison Pipeline resource.

August 12, 2022 | Press Release | Hannah Matthews

Inflation Reduction Act Makes Big Advances but Leaves out Anti-Poverty Priorities

The just-passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes important and long-overdue investments to help restore fairness in our tax system, reduce health care costs, and address the climate crisis.

June 25, 2022 | Press Release | Indivar Dutta-Gupta

Safer Communities Act May Improve Mental Health for Some, But More Support Needed for Black and Brown Youth

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act will bring needed investments to address the youth mental health crisis, which disproportionately impacts young people of color who lack access to appropriate care.  However, reflexively attributing gun violence to mental health challenges furthers a counterproductive narrative that stigmatizes young people…

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