Advocacy
Learn more about the positions taken by the California State Conference of the NAAACP.
Smart And Safe
Smart And Safe: The Right Of Public Safety
For 100 years, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has played a pivotal role in shaping a national agenda to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of African Americans and other people who have faced historical discrimination in the United States. To support and leverage the work of our local units, who work tirelessly on behalf of many communities in crisis, the NAACP has developed a "smart and safe" framework in which to implement an advocacy agenda to ensure equal justice and safer communities. Our goal is to ensure public safety as a civil and human right. We believe this can be accomplished when we focus on what matters and what works.
When police officers focus on behavior rather than physical appearances, they catch more people who have broken the law...
President's Talking Points
AB 781 (JEFFRIES)
Discrimination: Bilingual Hiring Requirements
FEDERAL FUNDING: RACE TO THE TOP INITIATIVE
Relative To Low Performing Schools
SR 7 (LENO)
Relative To Same-Sex Marriage
Advocate Talking Points
AB 412 (CARTER)
Hate Crimes: Nooses
JOINT INFORMATIONAL HEARING
Constitutional & Budget Reform
Advocacy Articles
End Racial Hatred in America
It is critical to realize that the N-word is not only offensive to the African American community but to our society as a whole, as it demonstrates a lack of understanding and tolerance for others.
African American Voter Turnout Essential to Election Outcome
We can collectively protect ourselves by voting for candidates that respect and want us by voting for issues that are essential to the health and welfare of the African American community.
Legislative Priorities 2007-08 Session
A list of California legislation being tracked by CA-NAACP.
Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act would make it easier for the federal government to get involved in investigating, prosecuting, and preventing hate crimes across the country, and would expand the definition of hate crime as one that is perpetrated against a person because of the victim's gender, disability, or sexual orientation.
Patients' Bill of Rights
The NAACP continues to fight to see that a genuine "Patients Bill of Rights" is presented to the President and signed into law.
Driving While Black
It is difficult for our faith in the American judicial system not to be challenged when we cannot even drive down an interstate without being stopped merely because of the color of our skin.
Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offenses
Read why the California State Conference of the NAACP opposes mandatory minimum sentences.
Employment Discrimination
Why We Support AB 19, the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act
Many have asked why the NAACP supports equal marriage rights for same sex couples. The California NAACP believes that civil justice is a right for every citizen, regardless of race, color, national origin, disability, age, creed or sexual orientation.
Report: The Stanley Tookie Williams Campaign to Stop Legal Killing
Opposition to the death penalty is the policy of the National Association for the advancement of Colored People, (NAACP) which all of its local units are bound to. Read the report on The Save Stanley Tookie Williams Campaign.
Police Brutality Report