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Dear Friend,
I am excited to invite you to register for “Drug War Dragnet: Surveillance, Criminalization, and Freedom from Drug War Targeting,” a free, virtual conference hosted by the Drug Policy Alliance and co-sponsored by the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work and Upturn.
We know that the war on drugs has impacts far beyond the criminal legal system. This first-of-its kind conference will bring together leading thinkers to map the more invisibilized forms of drug war surveillance within civil systems, such as public benefits, family policing, housing, immigration, employment, healthcare, and education.
Join us on April 27 at 12:00pm ET for a keynote conversation with Dr. Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families - and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World; Dr. Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor; and Kassandra Frederique, Executive Director of Drug Policy Alliance.
Tune in for the full convening on April 28 from 12:00pm - 6:00pm ET for three panels that will explore the following:
- The range of surveillance technologies – such as algorithms and predictive risk models, digital health and criminal legal data sharing, background checks, and drug testing – deployed within civil systems to monitor people who use drugs or people suspected of using and/or selling drugs
- The actors, policies, and practices – such as mandatory reporting laws, nuisance laws, behavioral modification interventions, and collaborations between police and civil systems – that govern people’s lives outside of the purview of the criminal legal system
- The impacts of drug war surveillance and the levers of change at the policy, programmatic, and individual levels
Register and find the full panel descriptions here.
We want you to be part of this important conversation about how we can work together to uncover and address the ways the drug war creates barriers and systems of surveillance that punish, rather than help.
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Sincerely,
Melissa Moore
Director, Civil Systems Reform
Drug Policy Alliance |
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