The Criminal Justice Reform program at the Asian Law Caucus challenges inequities in the criminal justice system by providing community education, legal representation, and policy advocacy on behalf of low-income immigrants in the justice system, limiting local law enforcement collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by challenging programs such as “Secure Communities” (S-Comm), and promoting restorative justice as an alternative to punitive approaches to criminal justice.

Direct Legal Services

The Criminal Justice Reform program provides representation to low-income immigrant families with youth in the juvenile system, youth who are experiencing harassment or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, or other protected categories in the K-12 public school system, and individuals who are the victims of race-motivated police misconduct.

For more information about our free direct legal services for low-income immigrants, please visit our Direct Legal Services/Litigation page.

Community Education

The Criminal Justice Reform program actively outreaches to community members, especially youth, about the importance of knowing your rights. We provide training workshops and several downloadable resources translated in various Asian languages.

Know Your Rights

Our Know Your Rights component is our main community education tool. We provide four types of free interactive training workshops designed to educate youth, schools, organizations, service providers, and interested community members:

1) Know Your Rights: Police & the Three Strikes Law

2) Know Your Rights: the Juvenile Justice System

3) Know Your Rights: Bullying and Bias-Related School Harassment

4) Know Your Rights:  Train the Trainer

Our goal in providing the above training workshops  is to ensure that Bay Area communities, especially immigrant families, know what their rights are and are not unfairly treated by the juvenile or criminal justice system.

For more information, or to download our free materials, visit our Community Education page.

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Policy Advocacy

The Criminal Justice Reform program currently advocates for the following policies:\

Say NO to S-Comm (i.e. ICE’s “Secure” Communities Program). The ALC advocates limiting local law enforcement’s collaboration

with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s deeply flawed Secure Communities (S-Comm) program.

Restorative Justice. The ALC promotes Restorative Justice programs that are focused on repairing harm caused to victims and impacted communities as an alternative to punitive approach towards crime and juvenile delinquency.

For more information and helpful resources, please visit our Policy/Advocacy page.

The Criminal Justice Reform Staff

To contact the Criminal Justice Reform program immediately, please feel free to call or e-mail the Staff Attorney or Community Advocate using the information below:

Angela F. Chan, Staff Attorney

E-mail: angelac@asianlawcaucus.org
Phone: (415) 848-7719
Fax: (415) 896-1702