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• Another aspect of community policing is civilian oversight.
Check out this brief by the National Institute for Justice on citizen
review of the police.
• Our partners at the ACLU have published a community action
manual on fighting police abuse.
• Last year, the city council of Baltimore, Maryland passed legislation
requiring all police officers to be equipped with body cameras. For
best practices on body cameras, see these recommendations by the
U.S. Department of Justice.
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While
Councilwoman
England’s term is up and she is
unable to run again this season,
she intends to work with other
area councils and assist them
in implementing similar nondiscrimination
protections
– building what she calls a
“progressive army” for rights.
She is working with the equality
organization “PROMO” in
Missouri and the Kansas City
region to pursue equality initiatives. We thank England and Gunby
for their commitment to equality and for their service. England
has been to nearly every National Convening since 2008.
YEO Alumna Rashida Tlaib: The #TakeOnHate Campaign
Q&A
Q: What motivated you to work so hard Convening with Mayor Nathan Triplett of East Lansing, Michigan.
on LGBTQ issues?
Both of us had passed LGBTQ policies and decided to create the
toolkit
to
Paschall: My uncle came out as gay when I help
other
was 10 years old and watching my family process that information YEOs. I am
and learn to love and accept an LGBTQ family member is what contributing
first inspired me. Then when I was in college I met a transgender a
lot
of
person for the first time, and she became a mentor to me and t e c h n i c a l
taught me about activism and LGBTQ rights. Observing her language and
struggles – ridicule on campus, being denied access to health strategy
to
care and employment – taught me about the challenges faced by the toolkit.
transgender people.
I hope we
Q: You and other YEOs have been working with the YEO inspire other
to
policy staff to create a toolkit for non-discrimination policies. YEOs
make
and
What are you contributing to the toolkit, and what do you hope
share toolkits
to accomplish?
on the issues
Paschall: All too often as YEOs we see issues we’d love to advocate that they are
on behalf of and just don’t know enough about the issue. The idea experts in.
for the toolkit came out of a meeting at the 2014 YEO National
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State Director Policy Subcommittee. Councilman Paschall spoke to us about his string of legislative accomplishments, his work in the
LGBTQ movement, and his hopes for the YEO Network.
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of Arab and Muslim Americans. Through
TAKE ON HATE, Tlaib and her
colleagues seek to create systemic change
by pushing for local and national policy
changes, building an awar