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Council Member Althea Stevens discusses legislation on probation reporting and transparency

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Council Member Althea Stevens presents Intro 977-A, which requires the Department of Probation to provide more detailed and frequent reporting on probation violations, programs, and recidivism rates. She emphasizes the importance of transparency in the justice system and ensuring that probation serves as a tool for rehabilitation rather than punishment.

The legislation aims to identify gaps in service and address racial and economic disparities in probation enforcement.
Stevens argues that public safety involves creating pathways to success, not just policing.
The bill is presented as a step towards making probation an opportunity for individuals rather than an extension of incarceration.

Althea Stevens

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Intro nine seven seven a which will require the department of probation to provide detailed reporting on technical probation violations in all programs offered by the department.

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This legislation, increases the frequency of reporting on probation programs, compliance, and developmental mandates, and recidivist rates.

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It also requires more transparency around the nature of technical probation violations and ensures that DOP is providing information on all the programs they administer.

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Probation is meant to be a second chance, an opportunity for individuals to build their lives outside of incarceration.

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This legislation will help us identify gaps in service, address racial and economic disparities, and probation enforcement, and ensures that probation services is true to the purpose, rehabilitation and not punishment.

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When we're talking about public safety, we must recognize that safety is more than just policing.

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It's about creating a pathway to success and not roadblocks to opportunity.

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We must ensure that programming meant to support our communities are actually working and not just existing.

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That's why I will continue to push for greater transparency in our justice system and ensuring our city resources are used to drive real progress, not community segregation.

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With this bill, we take meaningful steps towards making sure probation is a tool for opportunity and just not another arm of incarceration.

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