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Criminalizing people in crisis: Chicago’s new law

Our coalition is troubled by creation of a new crime: so-called battery against emergency services personnel. Under it, no actual physical contact is required to be charged with a misdemeanor and fined or jailed.

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93% of voters want Treatment Not Trauma

The referendum of voters in the 6th, 20th, 33rd Wards called for the City to re-open all of its closed mental-health centers — and to do so in support of police-free mental-health emergency response.

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6th ward: Zoom on Treatment Not Trauma

City Hall is holding a hearing on an ordinance to help fund a robust PUBLIC mental health care system. Join us on Wed. 2/23, especially if you live around Chatham, Englewood, Grand Crossing, or Auburn-Gresham!

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Apply to be our public-health organizer!

The full-time organizer will lead the campaign for opening and fully funding the City’s public mental-health clinics, and will assist the youth-led campaign to remove police from schools and reinvest in restorative alternatives.

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