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Flights & Rights - Creating Community-Centric Technology Policy

Date: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Technology & Liberty Project Manager Jennifer Lee discusses how increasingly powerful surveillance tools have shifted the power dynamics between people and government, and how we are fighting back to create community-centric technology policy.

Save The Date - Flights and Rights - Homelessness in Seattle

Date: 
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Event Location: 
KEXP Gathering

Seattle Literary Arts Lecture: Luis Alberto Urrea

Date: 
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
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Flights & Rights – Back to School and School Safety

Date: 
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Event Location: 
Online
All students have a right to education, and we are working for more effective approaches to build positive school environments and help students.  As we examine the role of police in our daily lives, it’s time we also reevaluate the need for police in schools. Black, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, and Latinx students are disproportionately disciplined, suspended, and expelled from school. Students with disabilities are disproportionately excluded. Students who have been suspended are three times more likely to be in contact with the juvenile justice system within a year. 

Prisoner Justice - Live Panel with SINCE I BEEN DOWN

Date: 
Saturday, October 10, 2020 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Influenced by the national drug war frenzy, escalating crime, and gang activity, during the fear-based political policies of the 1980’s and ‘90’s, Tacoma, Washington sacrificed some of its most vulnerable children.
Join us for Institutional Racism: Mass Incarceration Virtual Town Hall 03.02.21

Institutional Racism: Mass Incarceration

Date: 
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
This series of virtual conversations moderated by Enrique Cerna will explore the racial disparities and inequities in Washington’s public health and policing systems highlighted by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. Join us to learn how to put equity front and center in the Olympia debates.

Power Up 2021: Local Government

Date: 
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
Power Up is back this summer! Join ACLU-WA staff to learn the ins and outs of how local government works, how you can hold lawmakers accountable, and make change in your community.

Second Chances

The Second Chances Project is part of a multidisciplinary collaboration across the Legal Department and Smart Justice campaign to significantly reduce the number of people in contact with the criminal justice system including front end reforms, systems reform and reentry work.
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