Our 2017 whitepaper sparked a national conversation around the adverse impacts of electronic monitoring of youth on probation, and in 2019, we hosted the first-ever national convening on the GPS Monitoring of Youth in Juvenile Court. We partner actively with public defenders, parents, and most importantly, youth themselves, who help us to advance compassionate, age-appropriate reforms to the juvenile justice system and defend the constitutional rights of all youth to a quality public education.

Current projects:

• Fighting for the release of incarcerated youth and investment in community resources through the Free Our Kids Coalition, including pushing for the redistribution of Camp Sweeney’s resources
• Eliminating police presence in schools through the Dignity in Schools Campaign – California
• Continuing research and advocacy around the impact of electronic monitoring on youth

Past wins:

• AB-901: Stop criminalizing adolescent behavior through “voluntary probation”
• In re. Ricardo P: Safeguarding the privacy rights of young people in juvenile court
• Providing technical legal support to Black Organizing Project in their successful campaign to eliminate the Oakland School Police Department
• Reforming Berkeley Unified School District’s discipline policy
• SB-419: Stopping discriminatory suspensions on the basis of “willful defiance”
• SB-190: Ending the assessment of juvenile justice system fees in California
• Ending Alameda County’s assessment and collection of juvenile justice system fees

For more information, contact Co-Deputy Director Rosa Bay, rbay@ebclc.org.