Month: March 2015

Participatory Defense Featured on Philadelphia Radio!

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Montgomery County Chief Public Defender Keir Bradford-Grey, right, and Leane Renee, mitigation and policy director for the public defender’s office. Ker and their office will be hosting a forum on participatory defense at Arcadia University on March 18th.

(Click photo to go to radio show) Montgomery County Chief Public Defender Keir Bradford-Grey, right, and Leane Renee, mitigation and policy director for the public defender’s office. Keir and their office will be hosting a forum on participatory defense at Arcadia University on March 18th.

Thanks to Power 99FM, and iHeart Radio in Philadelphia for hosting a discussion with Keir Bradford-Grey from the Montgomery County Public Defenders Office, Mark Holden, staff attorney Defenders Association, and Raj Jayadev of ACJP/De-Bug on participatory defense. The show was  in anticipation of our forum and training in Philadelphia March 18th-20th. We will be having a forum at Arcadia University on March 18th to introduce the nuts and bolts of the approach, and to hear from local leaders as they share ideas on how to win justice in the courts in the region. Click here to check out the 15 minute show to hear the energy coming out of Philly!

Launching Participatory Defense in Alabama!

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We recently had the honor to visit Birmingham, Alabama to build with the Jefferson County Community Law Office and local service providers and community organizations to launch participatory defense in this historic anchor of the civil rights movement. We also had the opportunity to meet with other public defender offices and community organizations from other parts of Alabama and Tennessee. We shared the story of participatory defense, went over intervention points in the timeline of an Alabama case, how individual case work leads to policy changes, how to build an infrastructure for participatory defense meetings, and tangible ways to build partnerships between defender offices and the local client community. Much gratitude to Jefferson County CLO family for hosting us as we collectively build this exciting new path. Check out the images below, and a short video captured moments and reflections of the training will be coming out shortly.

Gail gives the nuts and bolts of participatory defense meetings. She tells the story of how she first came to ACJP/De-Bug for her son's case, and now facilitates weekly meetings.

Gail gives the nuts and bolts of participatory defense meetings. She tells the story of how she first came to ACJP/De-Bug for her son’s case, and now facilitates weekly meetings.

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