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Demand Transparency

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What can I do in my community to hold leaders accountable?

Attend public meetings, go to jury duty, learn about local candidates, join a citizen’s police review board, the PTA, or your neighborhood association.

Elect prosecutors who will fix our broken criminal justice system.

Orlando Prosecutor Not Seeking Bail From the Poor, 5/17/18

Ask tough questions:

  • Does this action help just my community or the entire city?
  • What do different voices say are the problems in our city? Are their voices being heard and concerns addressed?
  • Why do my kids attend the schools they attend?
  • What is the relationship with the police to my community? What is the relationship of the police with different communities in my city?
  • Is our police department training officers in unconscious bias and de-escalation? If so, how many hours? If not, why not?
  • What is the history of my city? Who are the experts in this area? How can we learn from past mistakes?

Examine My Media Choices

  • How biased is your news source?
  • Look for sources with minimal bias/partisanship AND strong original fact reporting, like: Reuters, AP, AFP (future blog post coming soon)

Central Florida Resources:

  • Orange County League of Women Voters
  • Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
  • The Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College
  • Bias on the Bench, Herald Tribune Project

Central Florida History:

  • Even Breathing Is A Risk In One Of Orlando’s Poorest Neighborhoods
  • The ‘Slave Power’ Behind Florida’s Felon Disenfranchisement
  • The Florida Terror, the KKK and Murder of Harry T. Moore
  • Remembering Rosewood, 1923 massacre of a black town in Levy Co, Fla.
  • Orange County ranks 6th in lynchings from 1877-1950
  • Ocoee struggles with racial legacy as national memorial recognizing lynching victims opens
  • Wells’ Built Museum, was a hotel that housed prominent African-Americans who couldn’t get lodging elsewhere in the Jim Crow South.

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