LWV Presents Changing Policing to Improve Public Safety

Past event
Mar 10, 2021, 7 to 7:30 PM

Wednesday, March 10, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
A presentation of the League of Women Voters of Vermont and Kellogg-Hubbard Library.

Zoom Event. Register in advance at: www.kellogghubbard.org/adult-programs.

CHANGING POLICING TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY, the fourth and concluding program in the League of Women Voters policing series, builds on the first three programs and emphasizes several current efforts to effect changes that will improve policing and public safety, with an eye to the immediate future and how citizens can become involved.

Tom McKone, former executive director of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, will moderate this panel discussion.

PANELISTS
- Dr. Etan Nasreddin-Longo, co-director of Fair & Impartial Policing and Community Affairs for the Vermont State Police and head of Vermont's Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Advisory Panel.

- Jay Diaz, senior staff attorney with ACLU of Vermont, which is promoting its Ten-Part Plan for Police Reform to the Vermont legislature.

- Robyn Freedner-Maguire, parent volunteer with Mental Health First for BTV (Burlington, VT), a grassroots organization seeking changes in how we serve children and young adults with mental health issues and disabilities.

Video recordings of the first three programs are available on the KHL website, under Adult Programs, Past Programs, www.kellogghubbard.org/adult-programs (scroll down).

"How the U.S. Police Got Militarized" (November 2020)

"Policing and Mental Health" (January 2021)

"Racial Disparities in Policing & Juvenile Justice" (February 2021)

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