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New Models for Social Justice: Police Reform Q&A, part 2

When:

Monday, July 20, 2020, 4:00 PM until 5:00 PM

Where:

livestream on YouTube

Category:

LWVP Event

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Join us for " Part 2, New Models for Social Justice: Police Reform" with Anne Janks, Organizer at the Coalition for Police Accountability.

Anne Janks will share with us a proposed Oakland pilot program to respond to some 911 calls with a counselor and an EMT, instead of armed police. This program does not involve abolishing the police department but is a new model that re-imagines public safety.

WHEN: Monday, July 20th, 4pm-5pm
WHERE: livestream on LWVP YouTube channel

Ms. Janks will speak for the first half of the program followed by Q & A moderated by Lorrel Plimier, president of LWVP. Participants may submit questions through YouTube livestream comments, or email to lwvpiedmont@gmail.org.

This Community Conversation is co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Oakland and is free and open to the public.

Anne Janks has worked as a union organizer with diverse workers under varied labor laws and some with no right to unionize. She has lived in Oakland for 25 years. Her background includes workers' rights education, legislative campaigns, fundraising, website development, and social media advocacy. She is currently SIPing with her partner and two sons and the best garden they've ever had.

She began volunteering with the Coalition for Police Accountability in 2016 during the campaign for a ballot measure to create an independent community body to oversee the Oakland Police Department. The resulting Oakland Police Commission is the strongest independent oversight body in the country, with authority to write policy, independently investigate and discipline officers, and fire the police chief. Despite ongoing disputes over their mandated independence and resources, the commission has drafted new policy protecting residents from disparate stops and limited OPD access to military equipment, fired officers who killed a sleeping homeless man, and fired the police chief.