by Melanie Tom, Field Organizer
All families matter, no matter how your family was formed or who's in it.
Through the Strong Families Initiative, Forward Together and California Latinas for Reproductive Justice are working to ensure that all custodial parents, regardless of immigration status or language, will have the right to two telephone calls at the time of arrest to arrange for childcare for their minor children.
See coverage of this dynamic bill, which garnered full committee support at the Assembly Public Safety Committee last week at Colorlines.
Blog posts represent the opinion of the author, not necessarily Forward Together or Strong Families.