Matthew Ahn

Criminal Justice / Public Safety Expand diversion opportunities and evidence-based specialized dockets. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Support childhood programming that is proven to reduce crime rates. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Offer options and opportunities for restorative justice. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Prioritize crimes such as wage theft, environmental dumping, and other under-enforced misconduct that harms working-class families. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Save taxpayer money by ensuring the new county jail isn’t larger than needed. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Provide extensive support structures for traumatized children, instead of sending them to adult prisons. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Fight racial inequity in the criminal justice system by implementing fair, equitable, transparent processes for all Build and maintain a schedule of regular public meetings with communities and leaders. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Seek sentences that include necessary mental health and addiction treatments to reduce recidivism Increase supports available during pretrial detention and upon release. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Promote and encourage rehabilitation and expungement services and work with state government to increase reentry supports. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Focus on violent offenses, sex crimes, human trafficking, and abuses of power Strengthen the Victim Witness Advocate program and increase access to services. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Restore and strengthen the Conviction Integrity Unit End the practices of overcharging and coercive plea bargaining. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Create a dedicated public integrity unit to focus on misconduct by public servants and other powerful individuals. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Solicit and respond to the feedback of those who work in the jail as well as those who are housed in the jail.