If #CAleg is serious about safety, it needs to double down on #SmartSolutions that: ✅ prevent crime before it happens ✅ support survivors ✅ ensure people returning to our communities have a fair shot at reentry

The only thing better than winning, is winning with your team! #AB544 Onward!

"This bill addresses that gap and takes us one step closer to a democracy that includes everybody." — Isaac G. Bryan #CAleg #AB544 #TheVOICEAct

We need to put OUR OWN people in office! We have chose to fund prisons over our children’s education for too long! Please join us for my wife’s campaign kick off and canvas tomorrow! Saturday, 2/3, at the Hayward Education Office, 93 Jackson Street, Hayward, CA 94544, at 10 AM.

NEW: Today in L.A. Times Opinion, our colleague Brian Kaneada with CURB lays out why California should keep its promise to close prisons. "Gavin Newsom should be leading on this, not playing catch-up." #CloseCAPrisons latimes.com/opinion/story/…

CA CO’s just got a billion dollar raise. 1st order of business? Their union is a major donor behind the effort to roll back prop 47. State funds lobbying to lock more ppl up. If they really want to stop retail theft, they should donate some of that raise to the community

Today, we joined dozens of grassroots organizations, residents, & retail workers in telling the Select Cmte on Retail Theft that CA cannot go backward — we need #SmartSolutions. ❌❌This committee’s legacy cannot be that it was the instigator of another tough-on-crime era.❌❌

I saw a legislator recently say they want to expand the three strikes law and that it will then reduce gun violence. Reminder: the best way to reduce gun violence is by reducing the number of guns.

Sign up now to join a meeting with your Assemblymember to help pass SB 94: bit.ly/3wgMi4K #SB94 would provide for judicial review for individuals serving life w/o parole for offenses committed before 6/6/1990 & who have served at least 25 years of their sentence.

📷📷THIS IS BIG! 📷Facing a now estimated $73 billion budget shortfall, the state’s own Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) recommends California close 5 more state prisons.

Everyday we strive to uplift & honor Black history. Ashley Chambers, our Senior Communications Associate was interviewed in Girls United's article, The Civil Rights Movement Would Be Nothing Without Black Women​ Read it here: bit.ly/3IkgLla

Today we are proud to release the #SmartSolutions Policy Platform! Our public safety policy platform prioritizes measures that prevent crime and support people — not lock them up. #CAleg Read our platform here ⤵️ ellabakercenter.org/smartsolutions…

Expanding CA's 3-strikes law won't enhance survivor safety — it reinforces a harmful victim-to-prison pipeline. Let's protect domestic violence survivors, not punish or trap them in the criminal legal system. #SmartSolutions Take action. Oppose #AB2470: bit.ly/opposeAB2470

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As we head into the holiday season, I’m thinking about all of the justice impacted families. California has a higher per capita rate of incarceration than any other nation (besides the US). Sending love to y’all. We aren’t free until you are search.app/kPYKx6DqBauNZD…

We’re thrilled to share that our very own Director of Programs, James King has been selected as a 2025-2027 Leading Edge Fellow! 🎉💛 Rosenberg Foundation #BlackLivesMatter

Thrilled to announce I’m joining the 2025-2027 formation of Rosenberg Foundation #BlackLivesMatter's Leading Edge Fund fellows! With this fellowship, I’ll be working alongside 7 inspiring leaders transforming workers’ rights, immigration, and more. leadingedge.rosenbergfound.org

Rest in Power, Queen