



What's inside the legislation?
SECTION 1: Defund
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Repeals major programs and agencies that are currently funding state criminal-legal systems
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Enacts ways to shrink military spending
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Passes policy changes across policing, pretrial detention, bail, and indigent defense
SECTION 2: Invest
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Creates a community-led, government-funded public safety agency that will conduct research into non-carceral, non-punitive alternatives to policing
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Provides grants for new safety infrastructures, grounded in the work of community-based organizations and those most directly impacted
SECTION 3: Create Opportunity
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Structures a fund to allocate our tax dollars directly towards programs and efforts related to Education, Environmental, and Economic justice
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Enhances self-determination of BIPOC communities through strengthening voting rights and ending Emergency Management
SECTION 4: Call for Accountability
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Repairs harm through building mechanisms to hold public servants accountable, such as decertification mandates for offending police officers and entire police departments with patterns of misconduct
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Enhances self-determination of BIPOC communities through strengthening voting rights and ending Emergency Management
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