LATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF

Advocacy, community outreach and communications: we played a critical role in supporting legislative advocacy efforts to enact state voting rights acts in nj, md and mi. We also championed language access efforts in fl. Our criminal legal team focused on ending gangs databases in nyc and li and on eliminating the use of solitary confinement in fl and va. We are working to close the slavery loophole for the 13th amendment and to ensure voting access for returning citizens from incarceration. We are actively opposing operation lone star in texas, engaging with community-based immigrant rights organizations to identify priorities aligned with our criminal legal work, and monitoring immigration courts for due process violations. We continued our formerly incarcerated persons (fip) academy, providing leadership and pilot cohort of the advocacy training to those seeking employment in social justice organizations and have graduated nearly 40 individuals across the country.