Open Buffalo’s Justice & Opportunity campaign work includes advocating for ecological justice, creating safer neighborhoods, dismantling of mass incarceration and cutting recidivism, increasing grassroots power in frontline communities, and removing barriers to civic participation.
This work is often driven by important calls for legislative action, legislative proposals or pending legislation, and is carried out in collaboration with residents, community-based organizations, and the local criminal justice and corrections systems.
Have you checked out the original police reform report that Open Buffalo published in 2016 in collaboration with the Partnership for the Public Good? You can find the report (which includes results of our groundbreaking police perceptions survey of more than 2,000 Buffalonians) below:
Back to Basics Outreach Ministries, Inc. // Buffalo Common Councilman/Police Oversight Chair David Rivera // Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority // Buffalo Urban League // Color of Change // Nicole Lee, Esq. // Partnership for the Public Good // Prisoners are People Too, Inc. // St. Karen’s Center for Non-Violence // University at Buffalo - Office of Community Relations / / VOICE Buffalo // WNY Peace Center
Email us today if you are Interested in learning more about this work or volunteering for a future Justice & Opportunity campaign, info@openbuffalo.org
Take a look a the most recent work done to improve Justice & Opportunity in the Buffalo community.
Open Buffalo seeks an individual to complete a short-term Field Data Collection Project.
Average citizens stopped by Jefferson and Utica to share their experiences and explain how their lives could be changed by the passage of bills like Clean Slate and the For the People Act.
The Open Buffalo Freedom Summer Fellowship is an intensive leadership development program designed to: empower residents in Western New York with knowledge of the history of the original Freedom Summer; register and engage with voters; and work on winning the For the People Act on the national level.
Youth leaders call on public officials and community members to do better for missing persons and their families.
On Saturday, May 1, Open Buffalo hosted a “Know Your Rights” Cookout at Martin Luther King Jr. Park for the community to celebrate the passing of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) and learn what work still needs to be done!