We’re on Capitol Hill. 🙌
Today, our incredible partners and storytellers are meeting with lawmakers to advance the Safer Supervision Act—a bill that modernizes federal supervision by rewarding progress, supporting stability, and focusing resources where they matter most.
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Our CEO @JessicaJackson just published an op-ed in @TheHill urging Congress to pass the Safer Supervision Act.
“For years,” she writes, “our country has had the wrong debate about crime. We have been told that we have to choose between being tough and being smart, between accountability and second chances, between law and order and reform. That is a false choice.”
The First Step Act proved that taking a data driven and outcomes focused approach to public safety can reduce recidivism and produce positive outcomes for people in the justice system and communities. The Safer Supervision Act is the next logical step Congress should take.
Check out the rest of the op-ed and spread the word: 🔗 https://t.co/cIULu4UNvG
🚨 ACTION ALERT: Congress is considering the #SaferSupervisionAct, and your voice matters. Sign now: https://t.co/WUf0BT3awU
Federal supervision was created to protect public safety and support successful reentry. But over time, it’s grown too large and unfocused — stretching probation officers thin, wasting taxpayer dollars, and pulling attention away from real threats to our safety.
The #SaferSupervisionAct restores supervision to its original mission:
✔ Focused on real public safety
✔ Rooted in accountability
✔ Designed to help people succeed
With bipartisan support from 100+ organizations nationwide, this is a real opportunity to fix a system that lost its way.
🔗 Congress is deciding now. Add your name. https://t.co/WUf0BT3awU
🎉 IT’S OFFICIAL: HB 149 / SB 136 has passed the VA General Assembly.
Now it heads to @SpanbergerForVA's desk to be signed into law.
If signed, this bill creates a clear path to early termination for people who have worked hard and done everything right while on probation—complied with the conditions of their supervision, maintained employment, completed treatment, and demonstrated they are not a public safety risk to the community.
That means:
✅ Individuals are empowered to earn their way out of the system
✅ Probation officers can focus on higher-risk cases
✅ More Virginians can participate in the workforce
✅ Public safety resources are directed where they matter most
Governor Spanberger, let’s finish the job. 💪
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BREAKING: In a huge win, a federal court rules the state’s lifetime voting ban for people with certain prior felony convictions unlawfully strips voting rights beyond what Congress allows.
The decision could restore voting rights to hundreds of thousands of Virginians, especially Black voters long targeted by the ban. https://t.co/o7MVtQsm1A
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