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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)local leaders are working with members of the state assembly, and testifying before it. I need to get together with a few to get some interviews set.
A lot of these reforms are not even federal, but state.
But most press will not report on this. We do. I have even posted that here. At times I wonder if I should even continue posting on DU. This whole OP belongs in GD-P for example, but I was told I have no right to that opinion. I guess that's ok...
That said, in California the big thing is California Criminal Code 182.5 We have been extensively writing about it and covering the court cases involved in it. Young leaders are working to get that off the books. But if these is precedent established, that will send way too many young men behind bars, even when three strikes is no longer popular.
What happens on DU, I now know is nowhere close to what is really happening.
Here, an example of what I am talking about
http://reportingsandiego.com/2015/05/08/civil-rights-argument-made-in-court-charges-dropped-for-one/
There is a lot more there.