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Criminal Justice Director @ACLU_SoCal. Former public defender. I'd rather crawl towards freedom than stand with inequality.@NYULaw @UCLA alum. Opinions my own.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined May 2019
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📢 S/o to you! Thanks to community pressure, Irvine City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing the expansion of the James A. Musick Facility on Tuesday, May 11. This is not the end -- it is the beginning!
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Black and Latinx families can tell you about the damage done by @LASDHQ deputies and #LASDgangs members who kill and harm their loved ones. Alex Villanueva doesn't keep communities safe -- he and his henchmen are the danger. #CheckTheSheriff #VillanuevaMustGo #NCVRW2021
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Summer Lacey retweeted
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is rooted in and perpetuates a culture of violence. There is no way that sheriffs can "stand with victims" when they've created them.
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🔥Hot Tip🔥 You could already see The Briefing - w/ electeds, advocates & other experts on pandemic response, the economic crisis & other issues facing our most vulnerable - streaming at @theappeal & @nowthisnews. But NOW you can also listen - as a podcast. You're welcome!
Dear Portland: Prosecutors have a choice. They can continue to fuel mass incarceration. Or they can work towards dismantling it. Learn more about your candidates for District Attorney. May 13 at 1 pm PST. DA Candidate Virtual Forum. Live on Twitter: @theappeal
LA is about to make one of the most important criminal justice decisions of the next decade: choosing a District Attorney. Incumbent DA Lacey’s two progressive challengers, George Gascon and Rachel Rossi, promise innovative changes from the status quo. tjcengage.org/2020-da-electi…
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Today, community activists rang DA Jackie Lacey’s doorbell and were met by her husband pointing a gun in their faces and threatening to shoot them. It was a clear escalation of long-simmering tensions between Lacey and LA communities. theguardian.com/us-news/2020…
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Summer Lacey retweeted
BREAKING: 110 Black women sign letter condemning LA’s top prosecutor Jackie Lacey, saying she has “failed” to bring justice in the county and that it’s time for “true change.” medium.com/@realjusticepac/j…
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Huge: A new report by @DataProgress + @Justice_Collab + Fair and Just Prosecution shows Americans of both parties overwhelmingly support allowing people serving excessive prison sentences to seek release and reentry back into society. bit.ly/excessivesentencing
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Another interesting DA debate in Los Angeles last night, which once again took place without incumbent DA Jackie Lacey. Lacey has attended only one public forum with her challengers, and she doesn't appear to be planning on attending any more.
I’m at the LA Valley College debate tonight. — The “our current district attorney Jackie Lacey has declined to join us tonight” announcement was just made. Noticed more than a few eye rolls in the crowd tonight on that.
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At the district attorney debate last week, DA Jackie Lacey claimed her office doesn’t prosecute low-level offenses associated with homelessness. We just heard from a public defender who’s been in the courtroom. She says that couldn’t be further from the truth.
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It doesn’t get any realer. #publicdefender #reallawyers #jackiesaid
Tonight Jackie Lacey said @Rachel4DA, a former public defender, was unqualified for the LADA’s office. She then said that only real lawyers could be the DA. Well we got news for you Jackie Lacey - we are real lawyers. It doesn’t get any realer.
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Also check out and share this infographic for more on why the race for Los Angeles County District Attorney is so important.
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Los Angeles is about to make one of the most important criminal justice decisions of the next decade: choosing a District Attorney. Here are some important things to know about the race and the candidates:
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Have you heard about the horrible conditions and mistreatment at #ParchmanPrison? Join us this afternoon as we discuss the laws that keep people locked up, and how the state's ongoing resistance to reform exacerbates their raging prison crisis. zoom.us/j/875594915
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Summer Lacey retweeted
From law enforcement to law enforcement: "Avoiding the ethical & legal responsibility to be transparent only enhances public perception that officers are dishonest & self-serving. It further erodes the effectiveness of law enforcement." —@PoliceForReform independent.com/2019/12/15/t…
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Community members and grassroots organizers have long expressed frustration with DA Lacey. Among other serious issues, Lacey has sent 22 people to death row, every single one of which is a person of color. theappeal.org/how-district-a…
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Summer Lacey retweeted
Until we see concrete evidence that LA DA Jackie Lacey is actively implementing SB1421 in order to restore integrity to the legal system, "we will assume that she is instead choosing once again to turn her back on the people she is supposed to represent." 2urbangirls.com/letter-to-th…
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