Support strategic criminal justice reform to enhance public safety, maximize rehabilitation, and minimize jail overcrowding, recidivism, and local fiscal impact:
- Mental Health System: Support rehabilitative outcomes for mental health cases
- Assessment & Diversions: Increase resources to court system to conduct mental health assessments and refer defendants to treatment and services
- Pre-release Screenings: Administer mental health and skills assessments to inmates pre-release, connect to treatment, services, and employment opportunities
- Administrative Reforms:
- Multiple Felony Sentencing: To reduce impact on criminal justice systems, offenders with multiple felonies should be sentenced to the Department of Correction
- Bail Consideration: Cash bond consideration must require a screening assessment and the ability to increase the bond considering severity of criminal history
- Fines & Fees: Require that fines and fees not exceed cost to administer justice processes. Where fees exceed cost, surplus should fund restitution and treatment
- Public Input and Oversight: Advance community trust and successful justice outcomes
- Policymaking: Support Marion County efforts to establish structures for civilian input and oversight of law enforcement policymaking
- External Oversight: Trigger automatic external investigation for fatal use of force or misconduct cases
- Anti-Bias & Cultural Competency: Support community trust-building and deter bias
- Training: Support law enforcement job performance by funding and requiring Cultural Competency, Implicit Bias, and Bias Crime training for all officers statewide
- Bias Crimes: Amend bias crimes statute to make more inclusive and enforceable
- Law Enforcement Officer Supports: Ensure officer well-being and accountability, building on the bipartisan breakthrough in police reform embodied by House Bill 1006 in 2021 (and monitoring the implementation of its key provisions)