My daughter’s boyfriend’s sister (I know, I know...there’s a Ferris Bueller joke in there somewhere about being really sick) and her fiancee canceled their wedding and decided to elope. They hired a friend who was a photographer/minister and the three of them went to Death Valley National Park last month and made it…

That’s exactly what my friends are doing. They were going to get married this year in France but they canceled that and went down to the courthouse since one partner’s health insurance was way better than the other’s. Given the sad state of our health insurance system, they wanted to make sure they could get the best…

I live in an area that had little to no active cases, then someone decided to start having parties and weddings (with out of state folks who didn’t quarantine upon arrival). Now we are almost back to shutting shit down.

When tf are people going to learn that *gathering, even distanced and masked, increases your risk of contraction or transmission*? There is NO SUCH THING as a safe, socially distanced gathering!

Many times in my life I have wished that there was a system to identify at risk youth to facilitate outreach programs and prevent lives of poverty, crime, and abuse

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

“ensured the appropriate measures were being taken to prevent the spread of covid-19 at the event.”

Edgartown is a town on Martha’s Vineyard. I can’t see other areas having different rules, unless they rented a private house and openly flouted Covid restrictions.

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“...we have gone above and beyond to follow CDC and state guidelines regarding Covid-related safety measures.”

Geez, I guess I should keep this picture handy...

And yet, there is no evidence this information is being used as anything other than to target these kids for police attention because someone thinks they ‘might’ commit crime on baseless information.

Disgusting. It reminds me of the time my sister, a White middle-class teenager at that point, became suicidal, cut her wrists & wound up in a psych ward, then went home after two or three months. Then, there was an epidemic of trash fires etc. in our subdivision ... the police came to our house & asked all kinds of…

Agree. I would also like society figure out some other way of handing dumb violent white men a paycheck without giving them guns and the power to kill us if we look at them the wrong way.

Totally agree. And, how awful that these kids weren’t profiled in order to help them. They were profiled so that the cops have justification for assuming they committed a crime.

THIS is why we have to defund the police. The funds and access the PD are using would be used so, so, SO much better by a team of social workers and community advocates. Rather than lying in wait until they become criminals, we could actually intervene and help at-risk students avoid the school-to-prison pipeline.

Just gonna hazard a guess here...this ACAB PD will have a Juvenile Hall and/or local prison, both for-profit, that they are incentivized to keep filled to capacity. This is your actual school to jail pipeline, documented.

Acquiring the data”lawfully” does not make the use of the data moral or ethical.

You don’t have to have a law degree to be a Guardian ad Litem volunteer. I have an undergrad in pre-law and social work experience and I volunteer. Volunteers are the “feet on the ground” - collecting data and determining needs for individual children so as best to advocate for them. I provide reports to the Child…