Unifying Stakeholders to Strengthening Local Reforms ₪
24th NACDL State Criminal Justice Network Conference: 305 attendees — including advocates, media experts, and legal professionals — gathered to strategize on legislative solutions to the field’s most pressing challenges.
₪ 2025 Justice Reform Lobby Day: Hosted a lobby day in Richmond, Virginia, along with Justice Forward Virginia and the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and met with 35 state legislators on key criminal justice reform priorities. NACDL’s state advocacy team returned to the Capitol for a lobby day in February, meeting with 20 additional legislators to help push critical reforms across the finish line. ₪ Successfully fought against harmful discovery reforms in New York, protecting fairness and accountability in the criminal legal system. In 2025, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and several district attorneys sought to roll back key provisions of Kalief’s Law, 2020 discovery reforms that helped reduce pretrial detention, prevent wrongful convictions, and increase public trust in the courts. The legislature protected the core components of Kalief’s Law despite sustained pressure for rollbacks.
22 BUILDING A COMMUNITY FOR JUSTICE
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