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10 Feb 2023
Crime survivors all over the country are demanding a different future for generations to come. 🧵
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Entering the 1st full week of Crime Victims' Rights Month, we look back to
#CrimeSurvivorsSpeakAlabama. We were proud to partner w/ @AlaAppleseed. Cali Greer inspired everyone w/her call for change
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXVwfU…
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Our latest Crime Survivors Speak Podcast episode is hot off the presses today. Meet Sommer Alexander, Texas Chapter Coordinator for @timedone a Reentry Peer Support Specialist with the @TexasHRA.
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Together, Sommer and Aswad explore what real community safety looks like beyond incarceration, why most harm happens between people who know each other, and how trauma care, mediation, and economic stability can prevent violence before it happens.
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Mar 31
Sneak peek: A new CSS Podcast episode unveils tomorrow and Sommer Alexander in Texas is ready to reimagine what #publicsafety means. If you are, too, tune in tomorrow. youtube.com/shorts/7_8csWzSs…
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Crime Survivors Speak retweeted
Mar 31
For decades, the U.S. has poured billions into prisons - but just pennies into prevention and healing, helping people and building communities. It's time to flip the script - by investing in what actually makes communities safer.
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Mar 26
We're ready to host our survivor leaders from California for 2 days of organizing, healing advocacy at the Capitol. We'll break bread, inform each other on policy objectives raise our collective voices to impact positive change in our communities. Stay tuned!
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Mar 26
SB 1140 is about what works to reduce ⤵️crime and strengthen💪🏼 communities.
When people can move beyond minor past mistakes, they’re more likely to find stable employment, support their families, and stay on a positive path.
Thank you Senator @ShawnnaLMBolick.
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'Stability is safety."
Today's unanimous House committee passage of SB 1140 opens the door for more Arizonans to fully participate in their communities and the economy, making Arizona safer in the process.
Thank you Senator @ShawnnaLMBolick.
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Mar 25
Safety justice go hand in hand. We believe that everyone regardless of their past or where they live, deserves to be safe. Real safety comes from #publicsafety investments around prevention, healing, rehab recovery. The justice system should be fair, restorative a last resort.
Mar 25
We believe #publicsafety policy should be informed by crime victims people w/old records who have important insights on our nation’s most pressing public safety challenges. We believe our work to build safety that lasts justice that heals is more urgent relevant than ever.
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Mar 24
👏🏾HB 1042 is projected to deliver approximately $2.8M in annual savings for Pennsylvania, while advancing policies that strengthen #publicsafety.
Approximately 70% of crime victims in Pennsylvania support the earned credit policy advanced by HB 1042. We applaud today’s bipartisan passage of HB 1042 by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
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Mar 12
More Crime Survivors Speak Mississippi news to check out!
Thanks to @clarionledger and @MSTODAYnews for covering our first ever Survivors Speak event in Jackson!
#SurvivorsSpeak2026 clarionledger.com/videos/new…
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Crime Survivors Speak retweeted
The bill, which will receive its second hearing, creates more consistent and responsive approaches to community control that better account for public safety and rehabilitation.
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Crime Survivors Speak retweeted
During Wednesday’s Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee, a broad group of public safety stakeholders testified in support of SB 291, a bill sponsored by Chair @Manning_Nathan and Vice Chair @SenReynolds03 to strengthen the state’s community control system.
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Mar 10
During #SurvivorsSpeakAlabama, we were honored to present the CSS Lifetime Achievement Award to Alabama member & @AlaAppleseed Community Navigator, Callie Greer, and the Community Partnership Recognition Award to Mothers Against All Violence in Selma. alabamaappleseed.org/news/ap…
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Feb 27
Alabama can close the victim compensation access gap by passing HB 255 SB 192 to extend the victim compensation filing time limit from 1 to 2 yrs.
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Feb 27
We are grateful to AL policymakers who discussed this w/CSS members.
Sen Will Barfoot (R - 25)
@SenLanceBell (R - 11)
Sen Rodger Smitherman (D - 18)
Sen @aprilcweaver (R - 14)
@SenLindaColeman (D - 20)
@SenatorElliott (R - 32)
Sen @vivian_figures (R - 33)
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Feb 26
#SurvivorsSpeakAlabama 🙌🏾
CFSY’s Catherine Jones & Ghani Songster joined @cssjustice in Montgomery for Survivors Speak Alabama. On the steps of the Alabama State Capitol, survivors urged lawmakers to expand victim compensation & open the state’s first trauma recovery center.
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Feb 25
Day 1 & done! Our very 1st Survivors Speak event in Alabama Tuesday kicked off #SurvivorsSpeak2026 in Montgomery. We love being in community with you showing local policymakers what we are made of. If you couldn’t make it, stay tuned here. Get ready, we’re headed your way soon!
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Crime Survivors Speak retweeted
12 Nov 2025
Together, we are building #SafetyThatLasts and #JusticeThatHeals! Check out the full Just Safe family. The new safety movement starts here!
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Crime Survivors Speak retweeted
13 Nov 2025
This week, the OH House heard testimony from opponents of HB 88, which would cost taxpayers $60M annually & treat addiction w prison. The crime victims, former corrections chief & substance use providers opposed to HB 88 know OH deserves REAL solutions to addiction & trafficking.
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