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On November 20, 2020, CJJ's Council of State Advisory Groups voted on a series of policy platforms that will serve as the organization's top policy priorities for the 118th Congress and Biden/Harris Administration.
These platforms focused on addressing racism at the front end of the youth justice system through:
- improving training for those who work with youth of color, including educators and law enforcement;
- ending the overpolicing of youth of color;
- ending the school-to-prison pipeline; and
- increasing investments in communities of color.
A policy platform was also approved which called on Congress and the Administration to support states in their continued participation in the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.