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SCJN Materials

• Welcome Letter: 20th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference

• NACDL State Advocacy Resources

• NACDL Legislative Action Alert Collaboration Form

• Sign up for Action Alerts

• Meet NACDL's Advocacy Team 

Day 1: Wednesday, August 18th 

Disrupting Minority Report: How to Push Back on the Use of Predictive Analytics in Policing
1:05-2:05pm ET

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• Recommendations on Data-Driven Policing, NACDL (October 2020)

• Before the Bullet Hits the Body – Dismantling Predictive Policing in Los Angeles, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition (May 2018)

• Advisory Concerning the Chicago Police Department’s Predictive Risk Models, City of Chicago Office of Inspector General Public Safety Section (January 2020)

• Data-Informed Community-Focused Policing in the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Chief of Police

• Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to Test its Predictive Policing Technology, The Verge (February 2018)

A Year in Police Reform: Past Successes & Looking Ahead
2:30-3:30pm ET

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• Summer of Protest Prompted Spring Flurry of Policing Bills, The Pew Charitable Trusts (July 27, 2021) 

• As New Police Reform Laws Sweep Across the U.S., Some Ask: Are They Enough?, New York Times (April 2021)

• Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem, Brave New Films (2021)

• Policy Assessments of Proposed Policing Reforms, Council on Criminal Justice, Task Force on Policing (2021)

• Legislative Responses for Policing – State Bill Tracking Database, National Conference of State Legislatures (2021)

• A Roadmap for Re-imagining Public Safety in the United States, Human Rights Watch (August 2020)

• Nationwide Police Scorecard, Police Scorecard

• Reimagining the Role of Police, by Anthony Romero, Executive Director, ACLU (June 5, 2020)

• Blog: Brooklyn Center Provides a Model for Reexamining Public Safety, by Paige Fernandez, Policing Policy Advisor & Brandon Cox, Communications Strategist, ACLU (May 24, 2021)

• Transformational Public Safety: Reducing the Roles, Resources, and Power of Police, ACLU

• ACLU podcasts on policing

  • Podcast: Should we abolish the police?, At Liberty episode 112, ACLU (July 22, 2020)
  • Podcast: What will end police violence?, At Liberty episode 125, ACLU (October 29, 2020)
  • Podcast: Why is it so hard to hold police accountable?, At Liberty episode 102, ACLU (June 4, 2020)
  • Podcast: How the police lobby impedes public safety, At Liberty episode 158, ACLU (June 3, 2021)
  • Podcast: Why are the police the wrong response to mental health calls?, At Liberty episode 122, ACLU (October 8, 2020)

Criminalization of Sex and Status: HIV, Gender Identity, and Race
4:00-5:00pm ET

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• Policy Barriers to Ending the HIV Epidemic for Transgender People of Color in North Carolina & South Carolina: TRANSforming the Carolinas, Equality NC Foundation (2020)

• HIV Criminalization in the U.S. – A Sourcebook on State and Federal HIV Criminal Law and Practice, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (updated June 2021)

• Chart: U.S. HIV Laws and Prosecutorial Tools, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (2020)

• Map: HIV Criminalization in the United States, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (updated July 2020)

• Map: An Overview of States Criminalizing Viral Hepatitis, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (updated July 2020)

• The Power of the ADA to Challenge Criminalization, by Anne Kelsey Staff Attorney, Center for HIV Law and Policy

• Timeline of State Reforms and Repeals of HIV Criminal Laws, Center for HIV Law and Policy (2020)

• Reports from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law
  • Enforcement of HIV Criminalization in Nevada (May 2021)
  • The Criminalization of HIV and Hepatitis B and C in Missouri (February 2020)
  • HIV Criminalization in Florida (October 2018)
  • HIV Criminalization in Georgia (January 2018)

Day 2: Thursday, August 19th

The Trial Penalty: The Scourge of the American Criminal Legal System
1:10-2:10pm ET

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*Selected articles from the Federal Sentencing Reporter will be available for free until September 17, 2021

• The Trial Penalty in the Criminal Legal System PowerPoint

• The New York State Trial Penalty: The Constitutional Right to Trial Under Attack, NACDL (March 2021)

• Amicus Brief for South Carolina v. Robinson, NACDL (Nov. 2020)

• Virtual Panel Discussion on 'The Vanishing Trial' Documentary, NACDL & FAMM (June 2020)

• Amicus Brief for United States v. Gozes-Wagner, NACDL (Nov. 2019)

• *The Tyranny of the Trial Penalty: The Consensus that Coercive Plea Practices Must End, Norman L. Reimer and MartÍn Antonio Sabelli, Federal Sentencing Reporter (April/June 2019)

• *The Insidious Injustice of the Trial Penalty: “It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.”, Emma Andersson and Jeffery Robinson, Federal Sentencing Reporter (April/June 2019)

• *Why the Founders Cherished the Jury, Vikrant P. Reddy and R. Jordan Richardson, Federal Sentencing Reporter (April/June 2019)

• The Trial Penalty: The Sixth Amendment Right to Trial on the Verge of Extinction and How to Save It, NACDL (July 2018)

The Trial Penalty: Voices of Reform
2:30-3:30pm ET

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• Learn more about our speakers

The Case for Second Look Sentencing
4:00-5:00pm ET

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• The Case for Second Look Sentencing PowerPoint

• S.1014 - First Step Implementation Act of 2021

• Black and brown children are not 'superpredators' and should not spend life in prison by Vincent Southerland, The Hill (July 2021)

• Judicial Restoration of Rights as an Auxiliary to the Pardon Power by JaneAnne Murray, Federal Sentencing Reporter (June 2021)

• A Second Look at Injustice, The Sentencing Project (May 2021)

• Second Look = Second Chance: The Case for Reconsidering Lengthy & Other Extreme Sentences, NACDL (March 2021)

• No End In Sight: America's Enduring Reliance on Life Imprisonment, The Sentencing Project, (Feb. 2021)

• Life Without Parole for Second Degree Murder in Philadelphia by Andrea Lindsay, Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity (Jan. 2021)

• Second Look = Second Chance: The NACDL Model "Second Look" Legislation and Accompanying Report, NACDL (Released Dec. 2020)

• Resentencing of Juvenile Lifers: The Philadelphia Experience by Tarika Daftary-Kapur and Tina Zottoli, Montclair State University (April 2020)

• The Fight for Our Soul – A Legislative Blueprint for Changing the Way the Criminal Justice System Treats Children, Human Rights for Kids (Jan. 2020)

• Amicus Brief in Mathena v. Malvo (Juvenile Life Without Parole Supreme Court Case) by Former WV Delegate John Ellem, Former HI Rep. Karen Awana, HI Rep. John Mizuno, NV Assemblyman John Hambrick, VT Rep. Barbara Rachelson, UT Rep. V. Lowry Snow, AR Sen. Missy Irvin, and AR Sen. Greg Leding (Aug. 2019)

• Ameliorating the Federal Trial Penalty through a Systematic Judicial “Second Look” Procedure by JaneAnne Murray, University of Minnesota Law School (April/June, 2019)

• Second Look Sentencing, NACDL

• Campaign to End Life Imprisonment Website, The Sentencing Project

• Additional Resources on Second Look, NACDL

• What are other states doing about Death by Incarceration?, Straight Ahead (June 2021)

• First and Second-Degree Murder in Pennsylvania, Straight Ahead (June 2021) 

• Life without parole has turned Pa.’s prisons into hospices for the hopeless | Opinion, By David Garlock, Pennsylvania Capital-Star (August 19, 2021)

Day 3: Friday, August 20th

The Overcriminalization of Abortion
1:00-1:25pm ET

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• The Overcriminalization of Abortion PowerPoint

• Abortion in America: How Legislative Overreach is Turning Reproductive Rights into Criminal Wrongs, NACDL (2021)

• Abortion Policy in the Absence of Roe, The Guttmacher Institute (Updated July 1, 2021)

Social Media Skills for the Savvy Advocate
1:30-2:15pm ET

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• Social Media Skills for the Savvy Advocate Bibliography, NACDL

• Social Media Skills for the Savvy Advocate Powerpoint, NACDL

Race and Public Defense
2:30-3:30pm ET

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• Sample North Carolina Racial Equity Network Agenda (Dec. 2019)

• Raising Issues of Race in North Carolina Criminal Cases by Alyson A. Grine and Emily Coward, Indigent Defense Manual Series, UNC School of Government (2014)

• North Carolina Racial Equity Network Website

• COVID-19 sparks a new effort to support South Dallas businesses and nonprofits by Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew, FWD>DFW with The Dallas Morning News (June 18, 2020)

• Learn more about the work of Power in Action Dallas (Vimeo videos)

• The Decarceration Project, a new project out of North Carolina fighting mass incarceration

The Fight for Equitable Cannabis Reform
4:00-5:00pm ET

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• Drug Policy Alliance

  • Marijuana Legalization and Regulation
  • Criminal Justice Reform

• Last Prisoner Project

  • Criminal Injustice: Cannabis and the Rise of the Carceral State. Part I: The Policing of Marijuana Prohibition (2020)
  • Reefer Madness: The Racist Origins of Marijuana Prohibition (Medium, June 1, 2020)

• Marijuana Justice Virginia

• 2021 Marijuana Policy Reform Legislation, The Marijuana Policy Project

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