Fwd: [razaeducator] Online petition to amend the Daytime Curfew law

[Santos Zuñiga]

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From: BG <sjspan...@aol.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Subject: [razaeducator] Online petition to amend the Daytime Curfew law
To: ARE LOS ANGELES LIST <ARELos...@googlegroups.com>, razaed...@yahoogroups.com

 

 Please read and share!  

Hi everyone! 

I wanted to update you on our latest online petition to amend the Daytime Curfew law. The proposed amendment would eliminate the current $240 fine, create "no ticket" safety zone around school for students running tardy to school, LAPD would produce bi-annual reports on ticketing practices and more importantly establish youth worksource centers to engage young people struggling with attendance issues and create a student support services approach to truancy. 

You might wonder "why should I support the amendment to LAMC 45.04?" Well...
LAMC 45.05 harms the educational, human and civil rights of Los Angeles City students and their families, particularly students and communities of color. The negative consequences of LAMC 45.04 include:

1) Students are actually discouraged from attending school at all because they fear being detained and ticketed by the police just for arriving late.

2) The use of law enforcement and court involvement to address issues of school discipline and student attendance results in the unintended consequence of students and parents feeling criminalized and alienated rather than supported by school and are more likely to be pushed out of school altogether.

3) With over 60,000 citations distributed by LAPD and LASPD between the years of 2004-2011, it has disproportionately impacted students and families of color in low-income and primarily Latino and Black communities—Black students are twice as likely than the overall population of school age youth in the City of Los Angeles to be cited for a daytime curfew violation.

4) The law as currently written and/or applied presents an additional burden on non-traditional students who are often ticketed (i.e.: home schooled students, continuation students and student re-entering school from the juvenile justice system.

5) While the newly released LAPD and LAPSD directive on Day-Time Curfew enforcement is a positive step toward curtailing the current pattern of criminalizing students of color and low-income communities, we urge you to support this common sense solution to amend LAMC 45.05.

Please sign this petition and share it with your friends and allies!!

 

http://www.change.org/petitions/la-city-council-mayor-villaraigosa-and-la-city-leaders-la-city-amend-lamc-4504-now?share_id=heNMTYdrcV

 

Thank you so much! 

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