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The Illinois Advisory Committee is hosting its first virtual briefing of a series on Examining Civil Rights and Liberties Concerns with the Use of AI in Law Enforcement. This briefing will be held on July 21 and is open to the public.

For more info: https://t.co/vXGSDQUPEE

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July is Disability Pride Month. This month is a celebration of the strength, resilience, talents, and contributions of people with disabilities. Disability is a natural part of human diversity and everyone deserves equal access, opportunity, and respect.

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By continuing to raise awareness and increase understanding, mental wellness can become more accessible for all.

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July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to recognize that mental health matters for everyone and that not everyone has equitable access to care, support, or culturally responsive resources.

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In June, the Commission held a briefing led by Chair @RochelleMGarza on investigating potential violations and racial disparities in access to mental health care in juvenile justice facilities. 🔗https://t.co/IuXLw252Ha

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Tomorrow, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold their monthly Commission Business Meeting for July. This business meeting will be held in-person and livestreamed on the Commission's YouTube page. https://t.co/egbTGm7cde

For more info, visit:
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The Montana Advisory Committee will hold its first public virtual briefing of a series this Thursday July 9. The purpose of these events is to hear testimony examining civil rights concerns with the enactment of DEI policies at Montana public universities.
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📢 The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights June 2026 Newsletter is out! Click the link for the latest news on the Commission on Civil Rights, our 56 Advisory Committees and @CSSBMB_

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#ICYMI the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing to investigate mental health care and consequences in juvenile justice facilities.

Watch the briefing: https://t.co/uclFNqVK9E

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Today, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is holding a public briefing to investigate mental health care and its consequences in juvenile justice facilities — and we're hearing from powerful voices like Dieter, Director of Juvenile Rights.
@USCCRgov @dieter_cantu

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"In all of the states with significant populations of African American youth, those youth are 2.5 times as likely to be in placement as their white peers." Joshua Rovner with @SentencingProj (2/2)

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"As of 2023, black youth were 5.5 times as likely to be in placement in juvenile facilities as their white peers. That disparity is at an all time high with data that starts in 1997, and it’s important to understand that this isn’t a localized problem." (1/2)

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"I learned that if I wanted rest, I had to become disruptive enough to be removed from unit – that meant throwing my personal property around so I could be sent to security." - @dietercantupa @jsp_partners

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"When I became sick with illnesses such as strep throat or staph infections, I was only offered faucet water as solution." (1/2)

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"Rather than receiving support I was repeatedly labeled problematic, suspended, placed in alternative education settings, and pushed further into systems of punishment instead of care." - Samuel Quiles

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"I felt like I was bleeding on the inside and crying for so much help but nobody was hearing me." (2/2) - John Bunn

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"I started a non-profit organization called Voice for the Unheard ten years ago, and the reason I started this organization is because since I was 14 years old when I was wrongfully convicted, I felt like my voice wasn’t being heard." (1/2)

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@Lester972 "Sitting in prison at 19, I kept asking that question: What happened? What if they would have asked me that one question at 16, when my mother died & one of my best friends was killed. No one ever asked because four months later I found myself in the criminal justice system."

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"I was sentenced to life with never a question asked about what happened, only about the crime…But at 16 years old something happened, something shifted in my life that put me on this trajectory that caused me to be placed in prison for life at 19." - @Lester972

[Christina Buttons @buttonslives]

I spoke this morning on the research, legal, and policy expert panel at the @USCCRgov briefing on mental health in juvenile justice facilities in D.C.

I look forward to sharing my testimony on the issues affecting youth in care!