Congressional Briefing: Celebrating 5 Years of the First Step Act

The First Step Act (FSA) was a landmark bipartisan criminal justice reform accomplishment. As we mark its fifth anniversary this December, Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration (LEL) invites you to a Congressional briefing to discuss how reforms such as the FSA advance both justice and public safety.

Join law enforcement leaders who advocated for the FSA, a beneficiary of the FSA, and an expert on the unique coalition that came together to ensure the FSA’s passage for a conversation about how this remarkable legislative achievement came about, why such reforms are necessary to make us safer, and the urgency of building on this historic success.

Panelists:

Ernest Boykin, Associate, LINK Strategic Partners; Graduate of Georgetown University’s Pivot Program

Colleen Eren, Author, Reform Nation: The First Step Act and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration (Stanford University Press, 2023); Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, William Paterson University

Daniel Landsman, Vice President of Policy, FAMM

Captain Nicholas A. Lennie, Deputy Sheriff, Story County, Iowa

Stephanie Morales, Commonwealth’s Attorney, Portsmouth, Virginia

Moderator:

Rosemary Nidiry, Senior Counsel, Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration; Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York