Debt Free Justice California

@CaDebtJustice

DFJC is a California-based coalition focused on putting a stop to the unfair ways the criminal legal system drains wealth from vulnerable communities.

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  1. The problem, fundamentally, isn’t that the rates are unfair. It’s that we shouldn’t raise revenues this way—Mitali Nagrecha,

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  2. Getting an international comparative perspective on criminal fines from , Director of the National Criminal Justice Debt Initiative at .

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  3. We talk about fines, fees, budgets - but this a racial justice issue. If we don't keep talking about that, then the reforms we work for won't address that -- Stephanie Campos-Bui, from

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  4. While we’re looking at statewide legislation to end criminal fees, there are many counties that have already taken important action and LA could become one of them, says Stephanie Campos-Bui of

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  5. Our courts have turned into "revenue centers." Is that really what we want our courts to be? -- asks Martin Hoshino, from the California Judicial Council

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  6. Starting Panel 3 -- discussing where we are now with efforts to reform how fines and fees are imposed and collected.

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  7. The government has a responsibility to balance it’s budget, but whose backs are they budgeting it on? -

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  8. Government should pay for government work, not low-income communities of color targeted by the carceral system. -

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  9. We're back! delivering keynote at today's conference

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  10. Breaking out for break out sessions. Will be back tweeting and streaming soon and continuing the conversation on

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  11. Fines are very high when they shouldn’t be. Imposing fees and sending people to jail is not necessary. What extra accountability does a fine serve in addition to incarceration?

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  12. Theresa Zhen: In the traffic context, accountability assumes everyone who speeds is punished in the same way. We don’t live in that world. Police officers pull Black and Brown people way more often than white folks.

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  13. We're working on coming up with proportionate financial sanctions. Fines might serve an appropriate role, how do you make it a right sized role. Accountability does not mean the greatest or most excessive punishment possible

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  14. Question from audience: How do you push against the accountability narrative?

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    Theresa Zhen, associate at Hadsell, Stormer, Renick & Dai LLP, says "ability to pay determinations" are an inadequate solution because "no one can agree on what it means to be poor".

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  16. Over 11 million people in the US have their licenses suspended JUST for unpaid fines and fees.

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  17. Manny Galindo builds on this: LA is home to millions of immigrant people. We get texts every week about cops pulling people over arbitrarily. It’s a major fear we live in. I have an innate fear of seeing a police vehicle. The culture that is bred is so real.

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  18. We need to decriminalize but not decriminalize and make it a civil offense.That is still an opportunity for police violence. We need to get these laws off the books.

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  19. We should not just be looking at courts when we talk about fines and fees, the police play a vital role in perpetuating these systems. We cannot just focus on changing funding structures but we need to reduce the power of police to impose and collect

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