how can you impact the process? How can you make DC safer, freer and more equal? There are many tactics and strategies that have been used to organize residents around the need to change laws, policies and budgets that anyone can use to make their...
Who are the lawmakers? The elected officials in DC either sit in our main legislative body, the DC Council, or are key officials, like the Mayor, who oversee District public services, or are elected to represent a neighborhood. https://youtu.be/YZ9hQCoJQAw Who are the key lawmakers, and how...
how does the lawmaking process work? When someone comes up with an idea for a bill, there are a series of steps one would need to take to move from an idea to a fully enacted law. Here, we answer the questions any resident...
How to change the law You can take action and change how DC approaches policing, prosecution, and punishment. In these next few sections, DCJL lays out how you can navigate the lawmaking process and lawmakers, find key tools and resources, and campaigns you can join to...