FAIR Act

Funded Advocacy & Independent Representation (FAIR) Act

HB 3363 – Rep. Dave Vella

The FAIR Act will create a constitutional statewide public defense system that will provide oversight, expand resources, and establish standards to ensure that every person who cannot afford an attorney is zealously represented by their public defender.

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FAIR Act Endorsers

33rd Ward Working Families
A Just Harvest
A Midwest Movement Project
AIDS Foundation Chicago
Access Living
Ascend Justice
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago
Better Government Association
BlackRoots Alliance
CCBC
Cabrini Green Legal Aid
Cannabis Equity IL Coalition
Champaign County Bailout Coalition
Change Peoria
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Chicago Council of Lawyers
Chicago United Solidarity Project (CUSP)
Chicago United for Equity
Chicago Urban League
Children’s Best Interest Project
Color of Change
Faith Coalition for the Common Good
Faith In Action
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP)
First Unitarian Church of Chicago
GOT JOBS AMERICA
Greater West Town Community Development Project
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group
Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Illinois Collaboration on Youth
Illinois Harm Reduction & Recovery Coalition
Illinois National Organization for Women (NOW)
Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice
Illinois Prison Project
Illinois Prisoner Rights Coalition
Illinois Public Defender Association
Illinois Social Justice Alliance
Interfaith Criminal Justice Task Force
Lawndale Christian Legal Center
League of Women Voters of Illinois
Liberation Library
Live Free Illinois
Metro East Organization
NAACP Lake County Branch 3020 B
NAMI Illinois
National Council of Jewish Women (Chicago/North Shore)
National Lawyers Guild - Chicago
Nehemiah Trinity Rising
Nikkei Uprising
Phalanx Family Services
Prison Policy Initiative
Rehumanize Chicago
Restore Justice
Rockford Urban Ministries
She Votes Illinois
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
Smart Decarceration Project,University of Chicago
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL)
Speak Out Illinois LLC
TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities)
The Center for Empowerment and Justice
The People’s Lobby
The Porchlight Collective SAP
The Resurrection Project
To Defend If Necessary,LLC
Trilogy
Trinity United Church of Christ Chicago
Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois
Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois
WIN Recovery
Westside Justice Center
YWCA Champaign County
YWCA McLean County
Youth Empowerment Performance Project (YEPP)