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Community Groups, Families Urge Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley to Publicly Oppose Proposition 20

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 2020 Media Contact: Bilen Mesfin Packwood, Bilen@change-llc.com Community Groups, Families Urge Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley to Publicly Oppose Proposition 20 OAKLAND, CA – Community groups and families with the Justice Reinvestment Coalition of
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Responding to calls from advocates, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley changes internal immigration policy that put immigrant communities at risk of double punishment

Responding to calls from advocates, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley changes internal immigration policy that put immigrant communities at risk of double punishment Policy encouraged prosecutors to seek longer jail or probation time in exchange for an immigration neutral
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Justice for DaJon Ford – Participatory Defense

Urban Peace Movement led the charge this summer in a “participatory defense“ case supporting a young man named DaJon Ford, a former high school football start from Oakland, who was being held at Santa Rita Jail where he had languished
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Ending Juvenile ‘Direct File’

UPM has joined a statewide coalition called the California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice, which has been pushing for statewide juvenile sentencing reform (in an effort to begin to reverse some of the impacts of California State Proposition
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