Recently, Sacramento City Council voted 5-2 to accept a federal grant on the condition that they would “pass through” 30% of $800,000 to the Sheriff’s office to assist in their collaboration with the Central California Intelligence Center (CCIC). If that sounds convoluted and confusing, that’s because it is.

The saga of Sacramento’s institutional racism sadly continues. More evidence exposing the blatant racism of Sacramento’s police was found. The ACLU of Northern California recently released a report revealing an explicitly racial bias when it comes to traffic stops and Sacramento’s Police Department (Sac PD).

Sacramento and several other regions across California are currently fighting for public banks at nearly every level of government. A coalition of organizations led by Sacramento Acting Congregations Together, Sacramento Climate Coalition, and others are concentrating their efforts to bring a public bank to Sacramento

CALL TO ACTION:  support needed at the 10/15/24 Sacramento City Council meeting  at 2pm! If you’re able, please show up to this meeting...

In November of 2022, Sacramento voters approved Measure L, otherwise known as the Children and Youth Health and Safety Act. Thank you to the SacKidsFirst coalition who led the Measure L campaign! 

In our last post we discussed what defines environmental justice. This week we’re going to talk about environmental injustice and how it manifests. We’re looking into the impact of these injustices on our most marginalized community members, and more specifically, our unhoused neighbors. 

TL;DR: the Sacramento region is experiencing the impacts (and facing the increasing severity) of climate change and environmental injustice. Our most vulnerable and marginalized community members bear the brunt of these effects, and are often forgotten when it comes to policy decisions regarding the environment and climate. Read through this piece to see what plans our local government has in place to mitigate these impacts, and which organizations are fighting for environmental justice.

TL;DR: the Sacramento Police Department seems to be able to get anyway with doing anything they want, including murdering our community members, breaking the law, violating peoples' constitutional rights, and engaging in targeted racial profiling and discrimination. So, they deserve a raise, right?

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TL;DR: Sacramento City Manager - and all around disappointment - Howard Chan attempted to remove funding for the RydeFreeRT program (a program that costs the City $1M...by contrast, this budgeting cycle we gave the police a $30M raise), but thanks in large part to community mobilization, this program will remain funded for another year! Unfortunately the City only covered $250,000 of the cost, with the remaining $750,000 being split between Sac RT and the Sacramento, Natomas, Elk Grove, and Twin Rivers Unified school districts. Permanent funding for this program will continue to be fought for.

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