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Press Releases

Community groups file complaint against VPD’s new Neighbourhood Response Unit

A group of community organizations serving the Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside filed a Service and Policy Complaint with the Vancouver Police Board opposing the creation of a new VPD Neighbourhood Response Unit.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 16, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

A call for transparent police data now!

Pivot Legal Society submits Freedom of Information request to Vancouver Police Department in a push for transparent data
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 22, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Civil Society Organizations Renew Call for Drug Decriminalization

Read the statement issued by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, and Pivot Legal Society.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jul 10, 2020 | Press Releases, Drug Policy Reform

Community Rehabilitation Does Not Belong in Prisons

Pivot Legal Society joins advocates and members of the Yukon bar to call for the suspension of a residential housing program within the Whitehorse Correctional Centre.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | May 04, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Call for Local and Provincial Officials to Use Emergency Powers to House all Unhoused BC Residents

Together with BCAAFC, BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, and Carnegie Community Action Project, we sent a letter this morning urging immediate action to address the threat of #COVID19 for people who are unhoused and inadequately housed in British Columbia.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Apr 09, 2020 | Press Releases

Pivot Legal calls for the VPD to immediately cease practices undermining public health in DTES amid COVID-19

By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Apr 02, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Community groups call for a moratorium on street checks

By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Feb 20, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Oppenheimer Park residents and supporters celebrate 1-year of resilience

Park residents, neighbours, and advocates will be gathering on the 1 year anniversary of the rent city for a warm meal, music, and legal information about rights for people who rely on public space for survival, and to celebrate resilience in the face of a housing crisis, a drug poisoning crisis, and the ongoing criminalization of homeless people.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Dec 13, 2019 | Press Releases, Homes For All

Pivot Legal Society responds to most recent Anita Place ruling

The Court did not condone the City’s “priorities and approach” regarding Anita Place, and invited the parties to bring another application regarding the constitutionality of the City’s conduct.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jul 18, 2019 | Press Releases, Homes For All

Pivot Legal Society and Canadian Drug Policy Coalition successfully defend supervised consumption at Federal Court of Canada

Justice Mosley agreed with our arguments and dismissed CABA’s application, citing directly from our submissions. In his decision
By Peter Kim Peter Kim | Feb 28, 2019 | Press Releases, Drug Policy Reform
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). 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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