Policy Insights

Follow these links to get to organizations and resources that help keep us involved and informed.

Maryland General Assembly: MyMGA Tracking

https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Account/Login

Create an account, login and password, and see what's happening in Annapolis.

The Baltimore County Sexual Assault Investigations Task Force

https://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/boards-commissions/executive/sexual-assault-task-force

"County Executive Johnny Olszewski created the Sexual Assault Investigations Task Force to examine current investigation and prosecution policies, practices and training related to sexual assault complaints, including the review of past case files."

NAACP Baltimore County

https://www.naacp-bcountymd.org/

"The overarching mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equal rights of all persons and to eliminate racial discrimination."

ACLU of Maryland

https://www.aclu-md.org/

"ACLU of Maryland exists to empower Marylanders to exercise their rights so that the law values and uplifts their humanity."

MIT IDSS

https://idss.mit.edu/research/collaborations/icsr/icsr-project-teams/policing/

MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Policing data - research and analysis.

University of Baltimore Law Library | Public Access

http://law.ubalt.edu/library/librarypublic.cfm

TEDx | UOregon

Dog Whistle Politics: Ian Haney López at TEDxUOregon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qibFwUNDZX4

Cyber Harvard

Thurman v. City of Torrington (1985)

Landmark access to justice case for victims of domestic violence.

https://cyber.harvard.edu/vaw00/thurmanexcerpt.html

The National Conference of State Legislatures

https://www.ncsl.org/

Find legislation from all over the country related to issues that you care about.

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests

https://www.snapnetwork.org/

"We are SNAP, the largest, oldest and most active support group for women and men wounded by religious and institutional authorities (priests, ministers, bishops, deacons, nuns, coaches, teachers, and others)."

Oyez

https://www.oyez.org/

A digital archive of Supreme Court precedence. Find a case you like and look on the lefthand side for oral arguments and opinions that you can listen to.

Not sure what case to pick first?

My suggestions:

- Batson v. Kentucky: www.oyez.org/cases/1985/84-6263

- Miranda v. Arizona: www.oyez.org/cases/1965/759

- Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization: www.oyez.org/cases/2021/19-1392 (the dissent)

- Obergefell v. Hodges: www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-556

Princeton | Civil Liberties

https://online.princeton.edu/civil-liberties

This is a free course from Princeton University.

"Explore the moral basis of controversial claims of civil rights and liberties by carefully considering the evidence and reasons presented by notable thinkers and in groundbreaking Supreme Court opinions."