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Sharing our court watch observations at a conference on CA fines & fees policy
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"Data is hard to get" or uncollected "and a lot of it is inaccurate -- that makes it hard for us to organize and unfair for the people paying into the system -- people who are poor, people of color." - Anthony Robles of
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Mitali Nagrecha, Director of the National Criminal Justice Debt Initiative at Harvard Law: "we're using fines to solve the wrong diagnosis;" it's not that the amounts are unjust, we shouldn't be using this system to punish people at all.
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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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Stephanie Campos-Bui, the Supervising Attorney at UC Berkeley Law's Policy Advocacy Clinic: a person who spends 5 years on probation will be charged more than $11,000 from just 3 fees -- and that doesn't even count fines and surcharges.
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Stephanie Campos-Bui, the Supervising Attorney at UC Berkeley Law's Policy Advocacy Clinic, when counties eliminated fees "without the sky falling," statewide effort and broad support helped make CA the first state to end juvenile fees.
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Martin Hoshino from the California Judicial Council is hopeful about "ability to pay" pilot programs across the state that aim to reduce what a given person owes by more than half--but notes that delinquent debt is more than $10billion.
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Martin Hoshino, Administrative Director at the California Judicial Council, on how the judiciary was never supposed to be about revenue, even though judges impose fines and fees. "Is that really what you want your courts to be about?"
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The government has a responsibility to balance it’s budget, but whose backs are they budgeting it on? -
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A few highlights from
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Lisa: on upcoming decision from SC on "Automated License Readers" allowing the police to discover license suspensions connected to car registration: Can the police pull you over on that basis alone? "I fear the answer will be yes".
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Manuel on police violence in his neighborhood in LA: "I get a text every week" warning police pulling over members of the Latino community. I've had police drop me on my face because I "looked like someone they were looking for".
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Sharon Brett of Harvard Law School's Criminal Justice Policy Program says that charging and incentivizing police to collect "fines and fees" fosters environment for inherently violent interactions with impoverished communities.
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@_sbrett_ on an expansive definition of police violence: "The constant threat of incarceration IS violence."#LetsGetFreeLA#DebtFreeLA -
We allow the police to collect fines and fees through tactics that are inherently violent -- Sharon Brett
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Manuel Galindo, policy advocate with A New Way of Life Reentry Project says fines and fees are a cop-out--allowing politicians to avoid raising taxes.
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Angelique Evans says
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@Beth_Colgan reminds us it is unconstitutional to revoke someone's probation for willful non payment.#letsgetfreela#debtfreejustice -
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!
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@NoahZatz 1/5 of the sample of LA County cases faced probation revocation for failure to complete community service.#letsgetfreela#debtfreejustice
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