Advocacy
Advocacy is one important vehicle through which we can win transformative change. This session, LRC’s core advocacy priorities include:
ICE Out of the Courthouse
Safeguard our courthouses and civic centers from ICE and uphold due process, preventing staging of federal immigration operations in these spaces.
Pretrial Data Transparency
Pass the Pretrial Data Transparency Act and enhance transparency by requiring the collection, analysis, and reporting of pretrial data.
MN Juvenile Court Jursidiction
Defend Raise the Age legislation, passed in 2024, that raised the minimum age a young person can be charged in Minnesota juvenile court from 10 to 13.
Youth Interrogations
Protect and uphold young people’s rights by requiring parental notification and consultation with an attorney in police interrogations of youth.
Convened in 2019, the Minnesota Coalition for Youth Justice advocates for policies, practices and programs that reduce racial and ethnic disparities, treat youth and families with dignity, and are informed by anti-racist and culturally sound practices. The coalition is composed of directly-impacted youth and community members and aligned partner organizations, all of whom believe that transformational change is imperative for Minnesota youth to access justice that is led with equity and love, rooted in humanity, and responsive to the strengths and needs of youth, families, and communities.
End Youth Prisons MN is a youth-led advocacy, and organizing campaign to end youth incarceration in Minnesota. The campaign uses storytelling & the arts, radical theories, and direct action organizing to shift local narratives and policy. Launched in June 2022, the campaign centers young people’s visions for systems change and prison abolition, especially those of currently incarcerated youth, formerly incarcerated youth, and youth who are at greatest risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system.
