Racial Equity Montgomery

Police in schools have led to the criminalization of ordinary student behavior, disproportionately targeting Black boys and students with disabilities. Tell the County Council to vote for Bill [...]

When I joined over 130 other organizers and community members on zoom last week to watch the public hearing of Montgomery County’s Police Free Schools Bill, I realized that Democracy actually [...]

JUFJer Jerry Kickenson testified on Tuesday, December 8 in favor of MC 45-20, which would dramatically improve MCPD data collection and reporting practices.

We need to move away from punitive hierarchies—systems which reflect racial inequities, as has been the case in Montgomery County. We must implement effective models of Restorative Justice.

Jews United for Justice (JUFJ) seeks a consultant or consulting team to support the creation and management of a process to examine our practices, policies, culture and impact and to support our [...]

On September 2nd, we, a group of JUFJ leaders and involved community members, held a workshop on whiteness, Jewishness, and policing. The purpose of that workshop was to develop an understanding [...]

JUFJ members raised our voices loudly and repeatedly during the Montgomery County Council's 2020 summer session, and in many cases the Council listened to us and to our partners. In this [...]

The Montgomery County Council voted whether or not to reduce the number of police officers in schools. Learn how they voted and read the letters JUFJ leaders wrote in response.

Jewish tradition teaches us that destroying one life is akin to destroying the entire world. Police violence and systemic racism against Black and brown people have already destroyed too many [...]

On July 1, 2020, the JUFJ Board of Directors approved the following racial equity commitments that will guide our work in the months ahead: