The 2014 Know Your Rights forum began as a response to the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014.
The first Know Your Rights community forum was hosted by New Dawn Vallejo Corporation, the National Bar Association, California Association of Black Lawyers, Solano County Black Lawyers Association, Bay Area Black Prosecutors, , Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Vallejo City Unified School District, Vallejo Faith Organization and North Bay Ministers Union of Vallejo and Vicinity.
The forum was extremely successful, with over 600 community members in attendance. More than 150 youth and young adults received information about their fourth amendment rights. The forum also served as the beginning of a closer relationship between communities of color and law enforcement.
The goal of this event is to educate over 200 black and brown students about their fourth amendment rights and to serve as a means of cultivating closer relationship between communities of color and law enforcement.
GUESTS AND SPEAKERS
Rev. Dr. Dante R. Quick, – Pastor, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Vallejo, CA
Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III – Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dallas, TX
Dr. Ramona Bishop – Superintendent, Vallejo City Unified School District
Krishna Abrams – Solano County District Attorney
Andrew Bidou – Chief of Police, City of Vallejo
Pastor Danny Jefferson – Vallejo Faith Organization
Pastor Rodney Leggett – North Bay Ministers Union of Vallejo and Vicinity
Terry Wiley – Senior Deputy District Attorney, County of Alameda
Kwixuan Maloof – Managing Felony Attorney, San Francisco Public Defender’s Office
Yolanda Jackson – General Counsel, National Bar Association
