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Press Releases

Advocates Respond to the Final Report & Recommendations from the Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act

SCORPA was tasked with understanding the role of police with respect to complex social issues including mental health and wellness, addictions, and harm reduction. Community advocates have reviewed the report and its 11 recommendations, and have responded to the proposals for transforming policing and community safety in BC. 
By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | Apr 29, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

We must defund the police to build safe, healthy, and sustainable communities

Defund 604 Network releases 6 demands to build safe, health and sustainable communities for all with release of results of the 2021 People’s Budget in advance of 2022 police budget deliberations.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 22, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

BC’s decriminalization plan doesn’t go far enough

Members of the Province’s Core Planning Table express grave concerns that BC’s bid to decriminalize drugs leaves behind the most marginalized drug users
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 01, 2021 | Press Releases, Drug Policy Reform

“They know people don’t know their rights”: Daily street sweeps displace & dispossess unhoused DTES residents

Street sweeps are conducted every morning in the DTES. We must end this dehumanizing practice!
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 15, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases, Homes For All

Community groups sound the alarm on upcoming implementation of vaccine cards in BC

28 health and human rights groups say BC's vaccine card plans intensifies discriminations against already marginalized groups
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Sep 01, 2021 | Press Releases, ICYMI, Project Inclusion

Coalition Submits Complaint for the Cancellation of the VPD Trespass Prevention Program

Legal and community-based organizations submit a formal Service and Policy complaint regarding the Vancouver Police Department’s Trespass Prevention Program (TPP). Complainants are calling for the termination of the TPP and a public accounting of its operations to-date.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jun 15, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

RELEASE: Downtown Eastside residents and workers continue to pursue accountability in complaints against two Vancouver Police Department officers

The complaints document a pattern of abusive behaviour by the two VPD officers, including harassment, intimidation, targeting Indigenous and Black people and interference in harm reduction responses in the DTES.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | May 27, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Decriminalization Done Right: A Human Rights and Public Health Vision for Drug Policy Reform

A broad-based Canada-wide coalition of human rights, drug policy, community, and drug user organizations are raising serious concerns about a proposed model for drug decriminalization that will be submitted to the federal government for approval. If adopted, the flawed “Vancouver Model,” as proposed by the City of Vancouver, could be a precedent-setting policy change—the first of its kind in Canada—that could pave the way for other cities to follow suit, including communities in Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec among others. It is therefore critical that this initial model gets decriminalization right by centering the health and rights of people who use drugs, as well as the needs of their loved ones and communities.
By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | May 11, 2021 | Press Releases, Blog, Drug Policy Reform

Strathcona camp residents issue a human rights report card to province and city on decampment process

As unhoused people are evicted from Strathcona Park, they look to local and international human rights laws to evaluate government decampment strategy and, based on these laws, issue a significantly low grade of “D”
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Apr 29, 2021 | Press Releases, Blog, Homes For All

Parents and Educators Call on the Vancouver School Board to Immediately Cancel the School Liaison Officer Program.

Last month, the VSB released an independent review of the program, completed by Argyle Consulting. The review notes the negative impact of police in schools for Black and Indigenous students, notable as Black and Indigenous youth remain disproportionately criminalized.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Apr 26, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases, Blog
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We are grateful to Indigenous Peoples for their continuous relationship with their lands and are committed to learning to work in solidarity as accomplices in shifting the colonial default. 

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