by Elizabeth Simpson | Dec 28, 2023 | Emancipate NC News
2023 was a beast, y’all. Despite that truth, Emancipate NC continues our fight for liberation and freedom from the racist carceral state and the systems and structures that enable and perpetuate it. 2023 has been a year of growth as much as it has been a year...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Dec 11, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
The Raleigh HEART Coalition needs your voice now more than ever! The City Manager’s Office is asking for community input on our coalition’s Alternative Crisis Response Unit proposal from now until March 2024. We need to show the City that...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Dec 11, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Reprinted from WNCN: Raleigh Police respond to a wide variety of calls, but should they? The City of Raleigh is developing an alternative response program where police officers wouldn’t show up to all 911 calls. The City Council discussed this at its Nov....
by Elizabeth Simpson | Nov 30, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
The Assembly and WBTV are doing a three-part investigation into Durham County’s child welfare system. Their second article, No-Win Scenario, features Emancipate NC’s Toia Potts’s uphill and unjust battle to fight for her children to return home....
by Elizabeth Simpson | Nov 29, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing, Raising the Juvenile Age
The Education Justice Taskforce, consisting of the Education Justice Alliance, Advancement Project, Emancipate NC, and Legal Aid of NC, has recently launched a new webpage for submitting complaints about misconduct by School Resource Officers (SROs) in North Carolina...