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  1. 1. velj

    Sharing our court watch observations at a conference on CA fines & fees policy

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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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

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

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

  8. 31. sij

    A few highlights from symposium in LA...

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

  10. : Abolition movement is gaining traction. It changes the benchmark. You don’t even need to buy into that concept to imagine what the work would look like.

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  11. Angelique Evans says is currently suing probation so that the community knows where the money is going. More transparency is key.

  12. 31. sij

    1/5 of people ordered to perform community service to work off fees/fines in sample faced bench warrant or probation revocation, subjecting them to risk of arrest and incarceration.

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  13. reminds us it is unconstitutional to revoke someone's probation for willful non payment.

  14. 31. sij

    Learning more with community about devastating modern-day “debtors prisons” aka the never ending system of punishment and servitude known as excessive fines and fees AND planning how we will end them together!

  15. “Community service substitutes the extraction of labor for the extraction of cash....[and] the greater the threat of jail is for nonpayment, the more that wages get driven down.” , Professor

  16. 1/5 of the sample of LA County cases faced probation revocation for failure to complete community service.

  17. reminds us that court-ordered community service is a descendant of Jim Crow debt peonage. Using debt as an alternative to jail to force people to work.

  18. “From a lawyer’s perspective, having [fees] makes it harder to serve our clients...this is something that affects all of the people in our community and we can do a lot better.” Meredith Gallen, Deputy Public Defender

  19. 31. sij

    Everyone is excited for our symposium on Fines & Fees Policy in CA today! Follow for live tweets. – mjesto: UCLA Labor Center

  20. Meredith Gallen with the Los Angeles Public Defenders Union: judges, prosecutors, court staff think of fines and fees as just a minor consequence when really they are a punishment.

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