Monday, November 23rd at 6 pm there will be a public hearing on the 2021 County Budget. Members of the Free the People WNY County Working Group will be testifying at this hearing to ask for the following:

• Bigger cuts to the Jail Management Division budget in accordance with the small jail population size
• Investment in community-based harm reduction programs
• Do not move the jail population to Alden
• Close at least one of the jails and consult the community about this process

Please sign up to speak here! And please share with your networks and ask them to speak or contact their legislator.

You can watch the hearing via Zoom.
(Meeting ID: 847 7914 7342, Passcode: 996568, or by calling 646-876-9923).