Students for Sensible Drug Policy at DePaul

03/15/2025

🚨Take Action To End Illinois' Public Defense Crisis🚨

Illinois' chronic underfunding of public defense is a civil rights crisis. Across the state, public defenders are tasked with overwhelming caseloads and are often deprived of the resources required to provide a quality defense. Funding disparities between the prosecutor’s and public defender’s budgets exist in every county. These dynamics disproportionately impact rural, Black, and Latinx clients who are most likely to be represented by public defenders.

The Funded Advocacy & Independent Representation (FAIR) Act will create a statewide public defender office to support county public defenders and ensure that all Illinoisans have access to high-quality representation.

The bill is scheduled to be heard in the legislature on either Tuesday or Thursday, which means legislators need to hear from supporters!

Instructions for filing witness slips:

1. Go to the links for both hearings to file a slip for each:
File a slip for 3/18: bit.ly/FAIRwitness318
File a slip for 3/20: bit.ly/FAIRwitness320

2. If you do not represent an organization, please write "self”
For Position, select “proponent” (Note: It is important to double-check you are not accidentally recording opposition!)

3. For testimony, choose “Record of Appearance Only”

4. To submit the slip, click the button "create slip"

5. Share this action with your friends!

09/14/2023

Hi there!

The Illinois Psychedelic Society has a full day symposium on Sept 30 in the Loop. We are offering students (and recent grads for whom the fee is a hardship) 50% off (limited availability) with the code STUDENT
www.illinoispsychedelicsociety.org/events-1/illinois-psychedelic-symposium

I'll hope to see you at the symposium! :)

Illinois Psychedelic Society Proudly Presents the First Illinois Psychedelic Symposium

09/14/2023

In 2020, the Cook County Justice Advisory Council commissioned a review of Cook County’s pretrial electronic monitoring programs. After two years of research and review, Chicago Appleseed and CGL released their findings last September. This morning, The Coalition to End Money Bond and more than 65...

07/07/2023

05/25/2023

TODAY AT 2:30PM CENTRAL

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10/22/2022

This morning, more than 120 organizations from across Illinois sent an open letter to the Illinois General Assembly calling on them to protect the Pretrial Fairness Act and oppose SB4228, the State’s Attorneys proposal for gutting this historic legislation. The Pretrial Fairness Act was designed to protect an individual’s right to the presumption of innocence and to address racial disparities in our pretrial system. The changes included in SB4228, however, would deny all Illinoisians those fundamental constitutional rights. If passed, the amendments in SB4228 would further fuel mass incarceration, worsen racial disparities, and create a pretrial system that is far worse than the one in place today.

Read Our Full Letter Here:https://endmoneybond.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/illinois-network-for-pretrial-justice-letter-opposing-sb4228.pdf

Read this post on our blog: https://endmoneybond.org/2022/10/19/120-organizations-from-across-illinois-call-on-the-illinois-legislature-to-stop-sb4228/

10/22/2022

Hip hop legends Redman and M1 of Dead Prez will join cannabis policy activists and justice reform advocates to call for cannabis clemency at a White House protest on Monday.

08/30/2022

Share This! Students for Sensible Drug Policy Foundation (SSDP) is disappointed by the recent anti-Semitic messaging coming from Decriminalize Nature’s National leadership (DN). After consideration of Decrim Nature’s actions, this type of messaging does not reflect the values of SSDP, and we hav...

08/17/2022

Democrats are defending the end of cash bail on Jan. 1 in the Pretrial Fairness Act. Sen. Karina Villa (D-West Chicago) and Rep. Anne Stava-Murray (D-Naperville) refuted Republican rhetoric about the SAFE-T Act.

07/12/2022

Share This!For Immediate release: SSDP & SMART Unveil First Cohort of HBCU Ambassadors for Cannabis Policy and Awareness Campaign Washington DC: Students for Sensible Drug Policy(SSDP) and the Student Ma*****na Alliance for Research and Transparency (SMART) have selected their 11 Student Ambassadors...