Q&A
CCHR's community outreach efforts and production of public-facing materials
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JoAnn Kamuf Ward, Deputy Commissioner of Policy and External Affairs at CCHR, discusses the agency's community outreach efforts and the production of public-facing materials.
- CCHR leverages partnerships with community-based organizations and council members
- The agency is working to create synergies between community outreach and complaint filing processes
- CCHR produces both highly technical legal materials and easily understandable information for the general public
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
1:02:09
Yeah.
1:02:09
No.
1:02:10
It I think it's a great question, and I think I am constantly impressed by the outreach and reach of of our of our agency.
1:02:17
And I think we have really leveraged and want to continue to leverage partnerships with community based organizations and with council people.
1:02:25
I mean, this is a little bit of a double dip because I'm still talking about LEB here, but one of the things that we have started to do as an agency is, when we go to resource fairs and we're working with folks to have resource fairs on particular issues, to have LEB staff in the room.
1:02:41
Because I think the idea of community outreach and filing complaints go go hand in hand.
1:02:47
So really thinking about how do we have greater synergies across the areas of work that are are the center of our mandate.
1:02:54
And I think another area that has been very significant for the commission over time has been things that we produce, and and I think, this came up already.
1:03:03
The public facing materials that we produce about the law, sometimes it's really important that they are hyper legalistic because they are for lawyers and judges to understand how we interpret the law, and we want to be doing more in that space.
1:03:14
But it's also really important that it is understandable to everyone in New York City.
1:03:20
And so, those are just areas where we want to continue, to do more that are, that are outside of the law enforcement bureau.
