Lauren Fanning, former CHLP Senior Community Outreach Specialist for the Positive Justice Project and long-time HIV advocate from Washington state is remembered by her colleagues for being a dedicated, compassionate, and driven activist.
CHLP's Jada Hicks, Supervising Attorney for Criminal Justice Initiatives, talks with TheBody.com about laws that criminalize HIV and hepatitis, how they contradict science, are overly harsh and how to reform them.
CHLP joined a group of civil rights, health care, and privacy advocates, public defenders and health care providers in a letter urging New York State Governor Kathy Hochul to veto legislation that would criminalize tampering with vaccine cards as it would further marginalize communities bearing the brunt of the pandemic.
CHLP's Jada Hicks, Supervising Attorney for Criminal Justice Initiatives, spoke with Insider.com about the R. Kelly case and laws that criminalize sexual behavior among STI-positive individuals.
Illinois became the second state (after Texas in 1994) to fully repeal its HIV criminal laws with Governor Pritzker signing Senate Bill 655 into law on July 27, 2021.
Part of an ongoing collaboration between CHLP and the APA, this Prosecutors Roundtable provided up-to-date information on the science of infectious disease as it relates to the work of prosecutors and law enforcement in New York City.
Led by local advocacy groups with assistance from CHLP, the reform process in Nevada produced a major reworking of both criminal and public health codes that take into account modern concepts of individual liberty and racial, gender, and disability justice.
