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)