CANCELED: Ruth Chance Lecture Series “Safety and Justice Reform Advocacy: Today’s Landscape” with Lenore Anderson

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR SPRING 2023.

Join us for a conversation with Lenore Anderson, president and co-founder of Californians for Safety and Justice and Alliance for Safety and Justice, on the history of victims’ rights and criminal justice, and advances made in reform through the ten bills sponsored by CSJ and just signed into law by Governor Newsom.

The call for victims’ rights has been used as a law-and-order tool to expand arrests and incarceration, but those strategies failed to stop crime or help victims. A punitive system doesn’t benefit victims; it adds to trauma rather than addressing it—a response that contributes to the cycle of crime.

Lenore will discuss how California is taking important steps forward with new legislation, including AB 160, which expands the number of survivors eligible to access the state’s victim compensation program and eases the financial burden faced by survivors in the aftermath of harm; and SB 731, the first law in the US to allow almost all old convictions on a person’s criminal record to be permanently sealed. She will also discuss how new approaches to public safety are changing the criminal justice landscape.