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The California Racial Justice Act of 2020 bars the state from seeking or securing a criminal conviction or imposing a sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin. The Act, in part, allows a person to challenge their criminal case if there are statistical disparities in how people of different races are either charged, convicted ...
California passed the Racial Justice Act in 2020, empowering defenders to challenge racial disparities in arrests, charging and sentences. If mirrored around the country, this law has the ...
John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of Connecticut (2023) Delaware Delaware Constitution, Article I, §21 (2019, 2021) CROWN Act (2021) Florida Florida Constitution, Article I, §2 (1998) Georgia Fair Employment Practices Act; Hawaii Hawaii Constitution, Article I, §3 (1978) Illinois Illinois Constitution, Article I, §18 (1970) Jett Hawkins Act ...
ST. LOUIS ‒ They feed the hungry. They counter violence and racial injustice. They fight for criminal justice reform and against book bans. And this week, more than 4,200 of them came together ...
At least 30 states and Washington, D.C., have enacted laws meant to curb abusive conduct since 2020, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. And while the last decade of racial justice ...
The North Carolina Racial Justice Act of 2009 prohibited seeking or imposing the death penalty on the basis of race. It passed both the North Carolina State Senate and North Carolina House of Representatives and was signed into law by Governor Bev Perdue. The law was repealed in 2013.
The death penalty has been on hold in North Carolina since 2006 — frozen by legal battles over the manner and method of executions as well as the Racial Justice Act — but observers fear the ...
Executive Order 13985, officially titled Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, is the first executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. It directs the federal government to revise agency policies to account for racial inequities in their implementation.