Healing & Safer Communities

Healing & Safer Communities

In June of 2020, San Diego Pride released a plan to chart a course forward to better address the public safety needs of our LGBTQ community and to hold law enforcement agencies accountable for bias in policing that disproportionately harms our transgender, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community members. Our Path to Healing & Safer Communities plan intentionally centers Black LGBTQ San Diegans. We honor the progress that has been made and the work we have yet to do.

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Accountability and Healing: Contacts & Resources

Both lived experiences and data show that LGBTQ+ people, especially Black, Filipino, Latinx, and other LGBTQ+ people of color and/or LGBTQ+ people with disabilities, often have negative interactions with law enforcement officers.

Some law enforcement agencies are attempting to mitigate these issues, build bridges with the LGBTQ community, and create a more inclusive internal culture by identifying LGBTQ liaisons that work within their agencies. San Diego Pride has compiled accountability resources, including contact information for all current LGBTQ liaisons within law enforcement agencies in San Diego County.

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Healing & Safer Committee Policy Recommendations

The below policy and practice recommendations from the work of the Healing & Safer Committee are directed to San Diego Pride, law enforcement agencies, and policymakers / elected officials. These recommendations from the committee range from small practice adjustments to significant shifts in policy and structure.

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Healing & Safer Communities Action Committee

San Diego Pride is actively engaged in community-based organizing work to advocate for criminal justice reform policies that build safer communities for all San Diegans, while centering our BIPOC LGBTQ community’s lived experience and building a bridge of understanding directly with local, regional, and federal law enforcement agencies. Get involved through our H&SC Action Committee.

H&SC Action Committee will meet quarterly without law enforcement presence, and quarterly with law enforcement presence.

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Pillars of Justice

Pride’s Pillars of Justice build on our mission, vision, and values to guide our work in policy, advocacy, and community organizing. These issue areas are core to the achievement of LGBTQ+ equality locally, nationally, and globally. While our focus areas and specific policies may shift often based on community needs, these pillars of justice build the stable foundation of our education and advocacy work.

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Resources

Learn more about this issue and connect with some of our community partners working on building safer communities for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities.

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Trainings

San Diego Pride offers LGBTQ+ inclusivity, diversity, and equity trainings to a wide variety of different audiences. These trainings are offered to law enforcement agencies as a form of harm-reduction for our LGBTQ+ community and are in compliance with new state laws requiring LGBTQ+ inclusivity trainings for law enforcement agencies in the state of California.

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