Updates
Action Alert: We Need Your Help to End Mandatory Bindover in Ohio
Every day, Ohio youth fall through the cracks in our juvenile justice system. Bindover is the process by which a juvenile court judge transfers a youth’s case to an adult court to be tried and sentenced as an adult. Here in Ohio, the practice of mandatory bindover still occurs today — where the court must transfer a child to adult court if certain criteria are met.
Statement on Issue 1
We stand tall this morning in the truth that we gave everything we had to stop the extremist oppression churning across our state.
The outcome isn’t what we’d hoped for. We know that many of our poor neighbors, families, and friends will face disproportionate justice and be penalized simply for having less than the wealthy who ushered State Issue 1 into our Constitution.
But we showed up. We did the work.
OFUPAC Urges Ohioans - Don’t Be Fooled by Political Games, Vote No on Issue 1
COLUMBUS - Ohio Families Unite for Political Action and Change urges Ohioans to vote “no” on State Issue 1, an inhumane, partisan ploy to enshrine cash bail into the Ohio Constitution and remove the Supreme Court of Ohio from the bail-setting process. This measure will be on the statewide General Election ballot this November.