Community Action: Harris County Community Safety Budget

Here’s the skinny:

• Organizers have created a Community Safety Budget that focuses on education, health, and safety of Harris County residents.
  The Community Safety Agenda is a proactive and life-affirming vision for how Harris County can keep its residents safe. The Agenda’s budget proposals bring together advocates from varied spaces— health, housing, and immigration justice to education, criminal-legal policy change, and climate justice—to craft a shared platform that spans these issue areas. The goal is to reshape the narrative regarding what really keeps communities safe while building new bridges to advance shared policy goals.
• Harris County’s Commissioners Court is getting ready to review budgets for Fiscal Year 2023 at 10 a.m. on September 13, 2022. The new budgets will be effective for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023.
• Members of Commissioners Court will meet in the Courtroom of the Commissioners Court of Harris County, Texas, on the ninth floor of the Harris County Administration Building, 1001 Preston Street, Houston, Texas. This meeting is also being held virtually to advance the public health goal of limiting face-to-face meetings and thus slow the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). See the announcement.

Here’s the action and links:

Review the Harris County Community Safety Budget and sign up to speak at the Commissioner’s Court in support of this budget for the new fiscal year.

• Review the budget
• Sign up to speak for Tuesday, Sept 13, at 10 am

Get involved with the community:

Here are the organizers who worked on this budget and supports it:

• Texas Civil Rights Project
• Texas Jail Project
• Civil Rights Corps
• Restoring Justice
• Woori Juntos
• Tahirih Justice Center
• MOVE Texas
• Grassroots Leadership
• Community Safety Coalition