Previous Policy Priorities

On November 20, 2020, CJJ’s Council of State Advisory Groups voted on a series of policy platforms that will serve as the organization’s top policy priorities for the 118th Congress and Biden/Harris Administration. 

These platforms focused on addressing racism at the front end of the youth justice system through: 

• Improving training for those who work with youth of color, including educators and law enforcement
• Ending the overpolicing of youth of color
• Ending the school-to-prison pipeline
• Increasing investments in communities of color

A policy platform was also approved which called on Congress and the Administration to support states in their continued participation in the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.