This event is hosted by Center for Family Representation.

Join the Parent Legislative Action Network (PLAN), the Chief Defenders Association of New York (CDANY), the New York State Defenders Association (NYSDA), and advocates from across New York State as we call on the legislature to stand in defense of families.

Advocates and attorneys will meet with legislators in-person in Albany to advocate for three important state bills: the Family Miranda Rights Act, the Maternal Health, Dignity, and Consent Act (formerly the Informed Consent Act), and the Preserving Family Bonds Act. Our goal is to shrink the pathways through which New York’s most marginalized families are funneled into the family policing system and to ensure that families currently navigating this system are treated with dignity and respect.

Join us to demand that New York enacts policies rooted in equity, fairness, and compassion, and invests in community-based, non-punitive family supports that are wholly outside the court and family regulation systems.