Atlanta Community Support Project

Proud to announce our organization is one of 25 local groups from around the country chosen to leverage data & technology to advance racial #equity and reform. Read more about our community research on disparities in homicide sentencing @UrbanInstitute → urbn.is/catalyst2025

Join us and Henriquez Chavez Law Weds, Dec. 10th for a virtual training on how you and your family can be prepared for the unthinkable -- ICE arrests and the criminalization of immigration. Register at bit.ly/immigration-re…

As part of the Georgia Justice Reform Partnership's (JRP) Talk Justice Tuesday series and in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, join us, @WomenOnTheRise1 & @IgnitingHopeGA next Tues to learn about the GA Survivor Justice Act. Register at bit.ly/DV-TJT

Through our efforts to gather & analyze comprehensive court data in Fulton County, ACSP hopes to increase transparency and give people whose lives have been affected by the criminal legal system the data needed to inform policy & practical change. urbn.is/catalyst2025

In 2006, Georgia increased Life sentences from 14 to 30 years, and the parole board has required people to serve more time on those sentences each year since. Black people, poor people, women, and trans people charged with homicide often serve disproportionately longer sentences.

Proud to announce our organization is one of 25 local groups from around the country chosen to leverage data & technology to advance racial #equity and reform. Read more about our community research on disparities in homicide sentencing @UrbanInstitute → urbn.is/catalyst2025

ACSP partnered with @IgnitingHopeGA and @gcadv to research disparities in conviction, sentencing, & parole outcomes for people prosecuted for homicide in Fulton County as part of a larger research initiative examining these issues in the state of Georgia. ignitinghopega.org

The Survivor Justice Act passed in the GA Senate today. Finally, legislation that rekindles hope for many I've done time with still serving ridiculous sentences for self-defense & surviving! It's been 10+ years in the making @IgnitingHopeGA & @CommunityATL but we're almost there.

So grateful to our partners at @EmoryCDS for helping to bring this resource-dream of ours to life!

While Georgia-focused, folks in other states will find some constitutional and federal resources helpful. *Artwork by Gary Shields, a cover illustration for the upcoming book Patient Patient by Atlantian Revival contributor Joshua Sadat-Washington.

Excited to announce ACSP's Toolkits Platform is now available, for free, for directly-impacted community members. Read more at atlcommunitysupport.org/toolkits

Donate a coat, have coffee, hand out supplies with us & our comrades for an MLK Day of Service tomorrow, supporting @KareemahHanifa's annual coat drive at 2760 Hollowell Pkwy, 3-5:30pm. Atlanta has VERY cold days approaching. Let's not forget our community members living outside!

Join us for our first statewide meeting of 2025 on January 29th at 6pm EST as we welcome @CommunityATL for an overview of their toolkits platform, their Attorney Reviews Initiative, and to gather feedback on building a registry-specific toolkit. Register restore-georgia.org/connect/statew….

Today is special. As we prepare to launch ACSP's Toolkits platform, directly-impacted people are getting early access & giving feedback. Keeping the community in control is what makes the research & resourcing we do so effective. Be part of that solution: atlcommunitysupport.org/donate

Join us for a community call this evening at 6:30pm ET. We'll be talking about our attorney review database and giving y'all an exclusive sneak peek at our new Toolkits platform. It'll be virtual (Zoom). DM us for the deets!

Fill it out online or print and mail it to your folks inside. atlcommunitysupport.org/reviews. Review attorneys in GA and beyond!

Public defender or paid attorney, trial/plea or post-conviction, awesome or awful, your input may be the trusted piece of advice for the next person or family faced with the difficult representation decisions surrounding a criminal accusation or conviction.

We need your help building up the ACSP Attorney Reviews database! If you've been impacted by the criminal system we want to hear about the representation you received.

Check out this piece on FIP voter suppression in Georgia. Timely discussion for @CommunityATL and our work at the @ficpfm #ficpfm2024 #CountUsIn conference. Thanks to @pagedukes for coordinating, and to @CharlotteKramon for putting PEOPLE first. wabe.org/advocates-in-g…

Glad to have the ACSP team together and be in community with our national comrades this week at the @ficpfm conference. #CountUsIn #FICPFM2024