In the months after the racist massacre at Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC, a group of churches, two mosques, and a synagogue were determined to offer more than thoughts and prayers. Instead, they joined together to tackle racism in the Charleston-area’s most prominent institutions: the police departments.
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Sandra Averhart reports on JUST Pensacola s continued efforts to increase the number of civil citations issued to juvenile misdemeanor offenders, as an alternative to arrest.
The faith-based organization JUST Pensacola has renewed its call for increased use of the Civil Citation program to reduce juvenile arrests in Escambia County.
For the second year in a row, hundreds of community members from a coalition of Pensacola-area congregations assembled to urge local leaders to take action regarding the high number of youth arrests. The meeting was held Monday via Zoom
Rev. Dr. Rick Branch, minister of music at First United Methodist Church and member of the JUST Pensacola executive committee, says they picked up where the inaugural event left off.