Racial and Criminal Justice:
- End cash bail
- SB 5819-community Review Boards
- Decriminalize driving with 3rd degree suspend license
- Decriminalize poverty
- Trespassing
- Failure to appear
- Sit and lie
- Increase victim services
- Enhance training (re: I-940)
- Ban use of facial recognition
- Algorithm fairness (address racial bias)
- Ban auto license plate readers
- Data privacy
- Collaborate between IcE/CBP and criminal justice system
- I-1000 (pro) affirmative action (ref. 88 on ballot)
- Voting rights for incarcerated
- Expedition of voting rights restoration of people with felonies
- HB 1517: Risk assessment, etc. for DV and IPV (need racial equity lens plus broader rep from impacted population)
- Emergent adult bill
- “geriatric bill”-elderly early release
- Rights and education for women who enter prison while pregnant
- True blood legislation
- Equity lens for people in competency hearings
- Emphasis on race and disability
- Equal access to healthcare regardless of race, justice involvement while incarcerated
Housing, Homelessness, Displacement, & Human Services:
- Statewide rent control
- Remove statewide preemption for municipal rent control
- Just cause eviction statewide
- Incremental payments for move-in cost (6 monthly payment)
- Universal background check
- Fair chance housing
- Access TIP $ for affordable housing
- Reevaluate risk assessment tools
- Transparency
- Do not limit HMIS $ to city-funded or local funded agencies
- Enhance reentry housing
- More State $ for supportive housing
- Safe supportive houses
- More $ for permanent affordable housing
- More homeless prevention $$
- Business licenses for landlords including mobile homes
- Rental inspection
- Landlord registry
- Tenant side enforcement of landlord responsibilities
- Civil-legal aid/right to council for eviction court
- Relocation assistance for economic displacement
- State $ plus Statewide spread of Rising Strong model
- Statewide mandated minimum of affordable mixed unit housing for projects taking State $$
- Tenants rights of 1st refusal for building sales
- Redefine “homelessness” to broaden services access
- Increase penalties for sources of income discrimination
- Build in rent grace period or remove 3 notice protection revocation
- Decriminalizing public camping
- Day centers and low barrier shelters need State $$$
- Allow longer treatment terms (in-patient)
- Increase detox beds
- Increase access to MAT
- Increase access to public transit
- Raise poverty level for State human services so more people qualify
Education:
- Loan forgiveness
- Universal voluntary access to ECAP
- Full day ECAP
- Full day kindergarten, Headstart
- Teach kids how they learn
- Increase access to alternative learning environment
- Raise ECAP poverty threshold so more people qualify
- Pay pre-K, ECAP teachers more
- End use of seclusion, restraints, child arrest
- Cultural competence for Pre-K teachers
- Increase support for teachers plus families for accessing development resources
- Year-round school
- Education for ten parenting
- Include white privilege in cultural competency training, encourage justice dialogue
- Fund to provide disciplinary diversion to keep kids in classroom
- Fair chance parent volunteering and school hiring
- ESL more and earlier
- More teachers/authority figures of color
- Pay equity for paraprofessionals
- Race pay equity-equal pay
- Student loans funded at same interest rate as banks
- IEP and 504 support (equitable)
- More access to transition programs post-grade 12
- More $ for higher education
- Pay student athletes
- More $ plus support for women and students of color and 1st generation at State level or community college, four-year and technical colleges
Other:
- Racial health equity (tied for first priority)
- Consideration of voting rights/participation in underrepresented communities (tied for first priority)
- Reservation addresses
- Rights formerly incarcerated
- Translation of ballots and voter’s information
- Ask for expulsion of Matt Shea (tied for second priority)
- Tax reform
- Tax capital gains on 2nd homes and on $250K
- More $ resources towards impact of nuclear industry on communities of color (tied for second priority)