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...

At the March 28th Sacramento County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting, the Board approved $1.7 million to pay property owners back rent and to repair damage toward Sacramento Self Help Housing (SSHH) homes under county contract (item 47).

At the 3/28 City Council Meeting, the SCPRC's work plan was discussed and voted on. Mayor Steinberg opened the discussion - and though he gave the Commission credit for updates to their work plan as well the Commission’s approach, he commented that he wants the Commission to be more “independent” and “assertive” in their recommendations.

This week SJPC is featuring a beautiful piece of art celebrating trans pride and joy from Quin Buhs, a high school student in the Folsom Unified School District.

Welcome to SJPC's first Community Meeting field report!

We'll be bringing you these updates each month following our Community Meetings so that, even if you couldn't make the meeting, you can catch up with other Sacramentans involved in social justice work.

Today we're bringing y'all a report back from an interview between SJPC editor and Dwight Harvey, a former Vice Principal (4 years) at Rio Linda Highschool, about the year he spent working as a Coordinator for the Twin Rivers Unified School District's Department of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI).

Sacramento’s social justice community has spent the better part of the last couple years gritting their teeth and doing their best to stay positive while the Sacramento City Council voted to do the wrong thing, over and over again. With very few exceptions, vote totals ended up being 7-2, with only Katie Valenzuela and Mai Vang ever appearing to have much of a conscience.

Today we're covering item 53 from the 12/13/22 Sac County Board of Supervisors meeting (yes we're a little late)

This year we saw the County bring back its plan to expand the jail, despite the community having previously blocked an expansion on 3/10/21 (to learn more click here). Once again, the public has been lied to & the county is breaking promises made to explore solutions other than a jail expansion.

At the Sacramento City Council meeting on October 11th, the community came together in a beautiful way to embarrass and shame our...