Policy Advocacy
Legal Action Center conducts policy advocacy activities to promote addiction and AIDS treatment, prevention and research, to fight discrimination, reform sentencing laws, protect privacy, and promote other sound public policies. LAC advocates adoption of public policies that:
- protect people in recovery or still suffering from addiction, people with HIV/AIDS, and people with criminal records against discrimination in employment, housing, benefits, zoning and other areas, and violations of privacy
- expand alcohol and drug and HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and research
- reform mandatory sentencing laws to enable community sanctioning of appropriate—especially non-violent, often addicted—offenders
- expand funding for community corrections, including alternatives to incarceration
The Legal Action Center conducts policy advocacy activities both Nationally and within New York State.
| ■ National Activites | ■New York State Activities |
