What's inside the legislation?

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 SECTION 1: Defund 

• Repeals major programs and agencies that are currently funding state criminal-legal systems

• Enacts ways to shrink military spending

• Passes policy changes across policing, pretrial detention, bail, and indigent defense

 SECTION 2: Invest 

• Creates a community-led, government-funded public safety agency that will conduct research into non-carceral, non-punitive alternatives to policing

• Provides grants for new safety infrastructures, grounded in the work of community-based organizations and those most directly impacted

 SECTION 3: Create Opportunity 

• Structures a fund to allocate our tax dollars directly towards programs and efforts related to Education, Environmental, and Economic justice

• Enhances self-determination of BIPOC communities through strengthening voting rights and ending Emergency Management


 SECTION 4: Call for Accountability 

• 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

• Enhances self-determination of BIPOC communities through strengthening voting rights and ending Emergency Management

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The Breathe Act - What is it? from The Movement for Black Lives on Vimeo.