Equity and Righting Past Wrongs to Start the 2021 National Planning Conference
The American Planning Association s 2021 National Planning Conference started streaming this morning, with an obvious focus on equity and the historical role of the planning profession in perpetuating systemic racism. May 5, 2021, 12pm PDT | James Brasuell |
There s an obvious effort to make up for lost time in the proceedings of the 2021 National Planning Conference (NPC).
Yes, the 2020 NPC was canceled in March 2020 as the COVID-19 started to take a toll in the United States, prompting closures of businesses and events all over the country. But even the original scheduled date of April 2020 would have preceded a moment of historic reckoning for the planning profession, as the nation grappled with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and so many more.
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
Though 2020 has been a rough year, I still feel fortunate that the last big in-person event I attended was this amazing conference, The Controlled Substances Act at 50 Years, which was hosted in February 2020 by the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and put together by the amazing team at The Ohio State University s Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and ASU s Academy for Justice. This terrific conference is on my mind now because the terrific
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law has recently published its Fall 2020 issue which includes these nine terrific papers from the conference:
December 26, 2020
Federal judge blocks January 12 execution date for only woman on federal death row
As repoted in this AP piece, a federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe Biden takes office. Here is more about a ruling that was handed down before Christmas:
U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss also vacated an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons that had set Lisa Montgomery’s execution date for Jan. 12. Montgomery had previously been scheduled to be put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, this month, but Moss delayed the execution after her attorneys contracted coronavirus visiting their client and asked him to extend the amount of time to file a clemency petition.