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Alternative Crisis Response Is Coming to Raleigh!
On April 16, the City of Raleigh presented the results of a community engagement campaign about Alternative Crisis Response. The results are clear! With thousands of responses, in person and online, residents of Raleigh/Wake County overwhelming want an unarmed crisis...
What is True Safety?
Philip Vance Smith II, an incarcerated Emancipate NC client, wrote about prison overcrowding in North Carolina in the Huffington Post, concluding that safety requires massive releases from prison: In 2002, I was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without...
Verses From Within
Come out to the Verses from Within: Artistic Resilience on Death Row from Creativity to Commutation event on April 21, 2024, from 3:30-5:30 PM for a benefit for the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. There will be...
Defending the Constitution in Family Court
On April 11, Emancipate NC Investigator Margaux Lander and attorneys Christine Umeh and Kaushiki Chowdhury presented about parents’ Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights at the ABA Parent Defense Conference. Every day, parents’...
Community Conversations
On April 11, Raleigh PACT, SOS Agency, and Emancipate NC co-sponsored a Community Conversation on Modern Day Lynching. Dr. Kimberly Muktarian shared the connections between the racial terror of lynchings and the modern racial terror of state-sanctioned police...
Sharing Power Moves Us Forward
Emancipate NC Board member Kristie Puckett and Strategic Director Elizabeth Simpson traveled to Yale Law School to the Arthur Liman Conference on public health and incarceration this month. Elizabeth was a Liman Fellow in North Carolina...
Four Twenty
As 4/20 approaches, Emancipate NC reminds you not to plead guilty to possession of marijuana! Make the State prove their case! If you are near Greenville or Charlotte this weekend, come out for our 4/20 events. Team Emancipate will host Don't Plead to Weed...
Hearing on the NC Racial Justice Act
Last month, a North Carolina Superior Court judge heard testimony on a historic trial under the Racial Justice Act about the history and inherent racial discrimination in the State’s administration of the death penalty. The trial will determine the future...
Judge Blocks Transparency
Last week, two UNC Law students, Morgan Schriner and Jack Salt, argued for public release of the body camera footage of a Raleigh Police Department “Quick Knock” warrant execution on the home of the Abbouds, innocent civilians who were victims of...
Charges Dismissed!
Emancipate NC attorney Jaelyn Miller successfully represented a Black man who was unjustly charged with “Resisting a Public Official.” Last week, his charges were dismissed by the Wake County District Attorney’s Office! In December 2023, the client was out...
Catch Toia on 1A
This week, Emancipate NC organizer and impacted parent, Toia Potts, was interviewed on NPR’s national program, 1A. This interview focused on a new book, Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services – Notes of a Former Caseworker, written by an expert...
Know Your Rights!
Join us for a Know Your Rights training session for protesters on March 28th, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Raleigh United Mutual Aid Hub, located at 415 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC. The presentation will be given by attorney Jaelyn...
Free CLE: Litigating Wrongful Deaths
On April 19, Sheriffs for Trusting Communities will host a day-long free virtual CLE course on “Litigating Wrongful Deaths in North Carolina’s Jails” from 9:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET. Catch Emancipate NC’s Elizabeth Simpson speaking about litigation...
Dawn Speaks to Prelaw Students
On March 16, Campbell Law School hosted the North Carolina Bar Association Minorities in the Legal Profession Pre-Law Conference. The conference provides inside information to high school students, college students, paralegals, and others considering law...
Kerwin Joins the Governor’s Joint Reentry Council
The Joint Reentry Council commissioned its first work session on March 12th, as part of the Governor’s initiative to address issues of reentry. Kerwin Pittman of Emancipate NC has been elected to join the Council. Pittman said, “It is time to make...