Category: Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Assessment Center Training - Monday, June 24th, 2019

6/16/2019

Juvenile Assessment Center Training - Monday, June 24th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am

Do not miss this important training in Davenport at Eastern Iowa Community College (map). Molli Barker, the Executive Director of the Juvenile Assessment Center in Centennial, Colorado, shares her experience and expertise working to address systemic youth issues.

Local leaders are working together to bring a Juvenile Assessment Center to Scott County. Learn more in this June 9th Big Story article from the Quad-City Times.

Download a flyer below. If you have questions call Nicole Mann at 563-326-8221 or email (below).

Registration is required. Email Nicole Mann at nicole.mann@scottcountyiowa.com.

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Restorative Justice - Car Theft Accountability Training

5/20/2019

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Restorative Justice: Car Theft Accountability
Training Date To Be Determined

Scott County Juvenile Center
500 W. 4th Street, Davenport, Iowa (map)

A recent PACG Blog post detailed the importance of this incredible new program.

If you’re interested in being a volunteer for this initiative where you would be part of a restorative justice circle, you must attend a four-hour training. For more information, contact Michelle Bancroft at 563-326-8228

Michelle Bancroft

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Candidate Questions - Civil Rights

4/22/2019

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Candidate Questions - Civil Rights

Immigration/Refugee Policy

Let’s get organized before the next presidential candidates come to town! It’s hard to know what questions to ask, but here is a list that Quad Cities Interfaith created. If you have additional questions you think should be asked, please contact our Office Manager, Amber Bordolo and we will add to this list.

If you attend a candidate’s event, print off this list (see the download link below) and have it handy in case you get a chance to ask a question. Listen carefully to the answers on the topics below. Take notes if you can, and report back to us in the Blog Comments below. We want to know what you hear and think!

These are also good questions that should be addressed to your State legislatures when they hold legislative sessions or campaign for re-election.

1. As President, will you work to re-unite families separated at the border and change this policy so that future children and families are not separated while their legal status is in limbo?

2. What is your position on the Central American migrant caravan asylum-seekers at the border?

3. As President, will you work to ensure that tear gas is not employed against any persons at the border, like that which took place in November of this last year?

4. In Iowa, legislators have passed a state bill to prohibit local municipalities from establishing local sanctuary laws. Are you willing to speak out against these efforts at outlawing city and county rights to establish local sanctuary status?

5. We are against ICE workplace and community raids that unnecessarily terrorize, and often separate, families. A prominent example took place in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa in the past year. What is your stance on the role of ICE in our local communities?

6. We are against laws that put undue burdens on local police forces to do the work of area ICE agents. We don’t think these measures make our communities more safe; in fact, they make people less likely to report crime for fear of retaliation or deportation. What is your stance on the role of local police in matters pertaining to immigration enforcement?

7. Do you support driver’s licenses for immigrants and other local efforts such as Community ID programs?

8. Do you support efforts toward providing a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants in the United States?

9. There has been a call to overhaul our immigration policies. What provisions do you think should be a part of revising and changing our nation’s immigration laws?

10. As President, will you take leadership in permanently eliminating “The Muslim ban?” Will you support policies that increase the numbers of refugees the U.S. accepts?

11. What role do you think the U.S. has in accepting refugees from countries where we currently or have previously actively supported or engaged in military conflict in those countries?

12. Given that the policies and actions of our government have helped to create the conditions which people in the Migrant Caravan are fleeing, what are our responsibilities to these asylum seekers? How should they be treated at the border?

13. We stand strongly against the profit incentive behind incarceration of immigrants and citizens promoted by the prison industrial complex. Will you reject campaign contributions from banks and corporations that have a profit incentive in the building of private prisons and immigrant detention centers?

Mass Incarceration and Restorative Justice

1. Our groups in the Quad Cities are dealing with racial disparities in rates of out-of-school suspensions. As President, what will you do to address these and other racial inequities in our nation’s public school systems?

2. There our racial inequities across the board in our public schools here locally, and throughout the nation. What will you do to close the opportunity and achievement gap in public education between low-income and students of color, relative to their more affluent white peers?

3. What is your take on the recent bi-partisan criminal justice changes at the federal level? What do you think is the next step towards improving our current criminal justice system?

4. As president, what will you do to provide opportunities for criminal ex-offender re-entry programs and to create employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated persons to reduce recidivism?

5. Do you support “banning the box” policies that require ex-offenders to disclose their felony history in job applications?

6. The U.S. remains the most over-incarcerated nation on the planet. What steps will you take as President to decrease the numbers and reduce racial disparities in populations of offenders behind bars?

7. We stand strongly against the profit incentive behind incarceration of immigrants and citizens promoted by the prison industrial complex. Will you reject campaign contributions from banks and corporations that have a profit incentive in the building of private prisons and immigrant detention centers?

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Restorative Justice in Car Theft Accountability Program

4/20/2019

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Car Theft Accountability Program Recruiting Volunteers for Restorative Justice

A program started by Jeremy Kaiser, Director of the Juvenile Detention Center, will bring restorative justice to the Quad Cities! Many PACG members are involved in the Juvenile Justice Working Group, and we were already interested in restorative justice. (The first book we read in the PACG Book Club was The Little Book of Restorative Justice, which we highly recommend to you!) After speaking with Jeremy about the new Car Theft Accountability Program, we believe this new program will use restorative justice to address this difficult problem in our community.

The restorative justice process brings offenders (and their families) and victims together in a restorative justice circle to try to repair the harm that has been done to the community. By repairing the harm to the relationships between offenders and victims, and offenders and the community that resulted from the crime, restorative justice seeks to understand and address the circumstances which contributed to the crime. In addition to trained staff from the Juvenile Detention Center, community volunteers are needed to participate in the circle to represent the community.

The Juvenile Justice Working Group has agreed to help recruit the community volunteers. Ideally we will include a diverse cross-section of the community, including people of color. Please email Alta Price if you want to volunteer, including your name, email address, and phone number.

Some initial information for potential community volunteers from Jeremy Kaiser, Director of the Juvenile Detention Center:

Volunteers Needed for Car Theft Accountability Program:
All volunteers will need to pass a child abuse/criminal background check and possess the right frame of mind to help restore relationships and repair harms that have been done in the community.

Volunteer training has not been scheduled yet. We will most likely wait until May or June to schedule volunteer training. We will bring in a consultant from a company out of Boulder, Colorado named Restorative Solutions. [Visit the Restorative Solutions website to learn more about restorative justice, especially as used in schools.] Catherine Childs is the name of our consultant who provided our facilitator training and will also provide our volunteer training. That initial training will last approximately 3-4 hours. We will also provide on-going skills training for all volunteers.

The volunteer’s role will be to sit in on restorative community conferences and provide the community perspective to the circle. They also help problem solve ideas to repair harm and provide support to victims, offenders, and families during and possibly after the conference.

Ideally we will have a pool of volunteers (5-10) that we can train to be available for conferences. We will likely only have 1-2 volunteers at each conference. The amount of time committed will be based on availability. Conferences will last between 1-2 hours at the most. We are going to try to schedule most conferences on Tuesday and Thursday nights, so availability on those nights will be crucial.

Community Volunteer Information Session:
Although not required, Jeremy Kaiser will be at an information session for potential community volunteers on Tuesday, May 7th at 6:30 pm at the Scott County Juvenile Detention Center Program Space, 500 W 4th St, Davenport. It is in the building connected to detention, but it is the entrance near the southeast corner of the building.

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Working Together Online Fund Drive: Make America Progressive Again - Civil Rights - Juvenile Justice

8/26/2018

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Jane Duax attended a PACG Civil Rights panel discussion at St. Ambrose on racial disparities in sentencing and mass incarceration. She was so impressed with the panel, she took the program from the event and started meeting individually with each panelist. Out of those efforts came the Juvenile Justice Working Group of Scott County. The group she founded - inspired by this PACG event - meets every other Friday to work on Juvenile Justice issues involving leaders and activists in the Quad Cities. Contact Jane to get involved.

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Juvenile Assessment Center Training - Monday, June 24th, 2019

Juvenile Assessment Center Training - Monday, June 24th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am

Restorative Justice - Car Theft Accountability Training

Restorative Justice: Car Theft Accountability
Training Date To Be Determined

Candidate Questions - Civil Rights

Candidate Questions - Civil Rights

Immigration/Refugee Policy

Mass Incarceration and Restorative Justice

Restorative Justice in Car Theft Accountability Program

Car Theft Accountability Program Recruiting Volunteers for Restorative Justice

Working Together Online Fund Drive: Make America Progressive Again - Civil Rights - Juvenile Justice

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Juvenile Assessment Center Training - Monday, June 24th, 2019

Juvenile Assessment Center Training - Monday, June 24th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am

Restorative Justice - Car Theft Accountability Training

Restorative Justice: Car Theft Accountability ​Training Date To Be Determined

Candidate Questions - Civil Rights

Candidate Questions - Civil Rights

Immigration/Refugee Policy

Mass Incarceration and Restorative Justice

Restorative Justice in Car Theft Accountability Program

Car Theft Accountability Program Recruiting Volunteers for Restorative Justice

Working Together Online Fund Drive: Make America Progressive Again - Civil Rights - Juvenile Justice

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Restorative Justice: Car Theft Accountability
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