Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Ass.

Law students fighting for #prisonabolition and expanding access to the law for formerly incarcerated people.

[Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Ass. @FILSAA_CUNY]

CUNY Law becomes the second law school in the country to remove the criminal history question from its application https://t.co/GMF0F3We2u

[CUNY School of Law @CUNYLaw]

Lawmakers introduced a bill in Albany to rewrite #Question26 on the #NYS lawyer #BarAdmission application, which asks prospective lawyers to divulge their full criminal records. This may break laws around juvenile, sealed, & expunged cases. 1/5

https://t.co/Or1OFRzcX5

[Palestine will be free @schlemieli]

are you a prison abolitionist who has been on a jury before?! we're working on a resource about how you can use jury duty to keep people out of prison, and we need your input! DMs are open!

[Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Ass. @FILSAA_CUNY]

@stringquintet @Ana_ExAFLCIO Yes! We actively work with students in preparing for the Bar’s C&F process

[Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Ass. @FILSAA_CUNY]

CUNY Law becomes the second law school in the country to remove the criminal history question from its application https://t.co/GMF0F3We2u

[CUNY School of Law @CUNYLaw]

In response to a student call to action, we expand our access mission for justice-impacted people: our application will no longer ask about criminal history.

https://t.co/vj7JkyggCL

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

Congrats @FILSAA_CUNY and kudos to your tremendous work on this!🎉🥳

[Stacy Lyn Burnett @StacyLynBurnet2]

Progress!

[Bear_Claw (he, him, él) @BearCla27494242]

This is not a small change, it is a sea change in attitude from exclusion towards inclusion.

[Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Ass. @FILSAA_CUNY]

Huge shoutout to our FILSAA members and comrades at @UnlockTheBarNY. Grassroots organizing creates change!!

[Unlock the Bar @UnlockTheBarNY]

BREAKING: @CUNYLaw admissions has officially voted to REMOVE the criminal history question from its law school application beginning next cycle.

They are the second law school in the nation to take this step, in a huge victory for @FILSAA_CUNY and UTB organizers!

[The Bronx Defenders @BronxDefenders]

Lawmakers must reject @GovKathyHochul's mass incarceration plan.

Rolling back #BailReform will inevitably jail more Black and brown New Yorkers, separate families, and deepen the systemic racism embedded in the legal system.

Read our statement: https://t.co/odz20PMXhz

[Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Ass. @FILSAA_CUNY]

Just posted a photo @ CUNY School of Law https://t.co/cpxSlEbPWK

[Unlock the Bar @UnlockTheBarNY]

Check out this awesome article by ⁦@FILSAA_CUNY⁩ and UTB organizers:

FILSAA & Unlock the Bar Tackle Character & Fitness Barrier to Bar Entry in Week of Action - CUNY School of Law https://t.co/r6RnestLa7

[Unlock the Bar @UnlockTheBarNY]

BREAKING: We conducted a jurisdictional landscape survey analyzing all of the Character and Fitness questionnaires throughout all 58 US atty-licensing jurisdictions.

The results underscore how C&F supports an exclusionary legal regime.

Check it out:

https://t.co/JxDRsKsacH

[Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Ass. @FILSAA_CUNY]

Check out recent advocacy work with @UnlockTheBarNY! https://t.co/0XJUu2hX6s

[Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Ass. @FILSAA_CUNY]

Just posted a photo @ Office of Court Administration https://t.co/IX2zL0tUQv

[Unlock the Bar @UnlockTheBarNY]

Check out this awesome coverage of yesterday's rally from @QueensEagle featuring UTB organizers and partners @Asabi93 @_NJIBA_ @FILSAA_CUNY

https://t.co/kCqFoPyzzb

[Tolu Lawal @Asabi93]

Character and Fitness works to exclude those who are systems-involved. It was initially designed to keep the legal field White & continues to serve White supremacy. It's TIME to abolish Character and Fitness.
#AbolishCandF #UnlocktheBar @NYCourtsCOA @NYSCourtsNews @UnlocktheBarNY

[Unlock the Bar @UnlockTheBarNY]

We are movement lawyers, and movement lawyers to be. We have a responsibility to shape our profession to be democratic, liberatory, antiracist.

Show up this week and add your voice to our movement. How does your lived experience inform your advocacy? #UnlocktheBar #AbolishCandF

[Unlock the Bar @UnlockTheBarNY]

C&F asks all the wrong questions, and we at UTB reject C&F's racist, capitalist logics.

We know that Ppeople who have lived experience with the criminal legal system are BETTER positioned to be lawyers and advocates. Debt does not define someone's character.

C&F must go.