Abolish Mandatory Reporting and Family Policing
RESOURCE LIST
The following is a list of links and resources that were either mentioned during the conversation or otherwise recommended by the speakers.
- Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral
- Webinar: Mandated Reporting, Trans and Disability Justice by Transgender Law Center
- Introduction to Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
- Book: Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
- Article: “Refusing to be Complicit in our Prison Nation: Teachers Rethinking Mandated Reporting” by Erica Meiners and Charity Tolliver in Radical Teacher
- Article: “Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Policing” by Dorothy Roberts in The Imprint.
- Article: “The Impact of Mandatory Reporting Laws on Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Intersectionality, Help-Seeking and the Need for Change” by Carrie Lippy, Selima N. Jumarali, Nkiru A. Nnawulezi, Emma Peyton Williams, and Connie Burk in Journal of Family Violence
- Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook by Generation Five
- Paper: “‘There’s No One I Can Trust’: The Impact of Mandatory Reporting on the Help-Seeking and Wellbeing of Domestic Violence Survivors” by Carrie Lippy, Connie Burk, and Margaret Hobart
- Kings County Youth of Color Needs Assessment: The Experiences, Strengths, and Needs of Homeless and Unstably Housed Youth of Color by Carrie Lippy, Sidney PK, Emily Hsieh, Shannon Perez-Darby, and Connie Burk
- Article: Not Seeing Like a State: Mandated Reporting, State-Adjacent Actors and the Production of Illegible Subjects by Max A. Greenberg in Social Problems
- Webinar: Mandated Reporting, Policing by Another Name
- Social Workers United for Change, Alternatives to Calling DCFS
- Article: “Toward the Abolition of the Foster System” by Erin Miles Cloud in S&F Online
- TANF and MOE Spending and Transfers by Activity, FY 2019: Mississippi
- The Help Desk at Interrupting Criminalization
- Podcast: One Million Experiments
- Video: Reports Are Not Support: Mandatory Reporting Harm Reduction
- Article: Mutual Deference Between Hospitals and Courts by Clara Presler in Columbia Journal of Race and Law
- Article: Mandatory Reporting Was Supposed to Stop Severe Child Abuse. It Punishes Poor Families Instead by Mike Hixenbaugh and Suzy Khimm, and Agnel Philip in ProPublica
- @beyondreporting on Instagram: Mandated Reporters Against Mandated Reporting
- Facilitating the Carceral Pipeline: Social Work’s Role in Funneling Newcomer Children From the Child Protection System to Jail and Deportation, Berjen and Abji
- Article: Unintended Consequences of Expanded Mandatory Reporting Laws by Mical Raz in Pediatrics Perspectives
- Actions: Beyond Do No Harm: discussion guide and actions for medical providers that do not want to engage in policing or with the police, by Interrupting Criminalization
- Action: Medical providers can demand there be informed consent prior to drug testing pregnant and parenting people and can sign a letter here
About the Event
How do movements for abolition of mandatory reporting and family policing intersect with larger movements for abolition of the criminal legal system? In this conversation, Erin Miles Cloud (Movement for Family Power), Jasmine Wali (JMac for Families) and Shannon Perez-Darby (Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project) will discuss the history of and harms associated with mandatory reporting; its role in policing Black, brown, and indigenous families; and how together we can abolish mandatory reporting while building strong, safe, and connected communities.
About the Speakers
Erin Miles Cloud is the co-director/co-founder of Movement for Family Power, and a former family defense public defender. She is Baltimore born, and Bronx living. She is the mother of two beautiful children.
A founding member of the Accountable Communities Consortium, Shannon Perez-Darby is a queer, mixed-race, Latina, anti-violence advocate and author working to create the conditions to support loving, equitable relationships and communities. Shannon Perez-Darby centers queer and trans communities of color while working to address issues of domestic and sexual violence, accountability, mandatory reporting harm reduction, and abolition.
Dean Spade has been working in movements to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law and the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book is Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next).
Jasmine Wali is Director of Advocacy at JMAC For Families, which works to abolish the current punitive child welfare system and to strengthen the systems of supports that keep families and communities together. She has worked in the nonprofit and education sector around the foster system for nearly a decade. She received her MSW from Columbia University with a policy emphasis. She was a Fisher Cummings Fellow, working at the federal Office on Trafficking in Persons and served on the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse project committee to make program eligibility recommendations for federal funding. Her lens on the Family Regulation System is shaped by her experiences on a personal, direct service, and policy level.
Accessibility
Live transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to skreitzb@barnard.edu.
This event is free and open to all. RSVP is preferred.
The event will stream on BCRW’s YouTube Channel. RSVP to receive a link to the livestream. Links will be sent close to the date of the event.
This event is made possible by the Patricia Wismer Professorship in Gender and Diversity at Seattle University.
Image Credit: Tia Ali, @tia_ali_art