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Volume 30, No. 1: Fall 2021
Annual Meeting Highlights
The ABA CriminalJustice Section met in Chicago and virtually
for the first Hybrid ABA Annual Meeting, August 4-10, 2021.
The Section hosted panels, council and committee meetings
and participated in the ABA House of Delegates proceedings.
The CJS sponsored an Annual CLE Showcase panel, Crypto-
currency Law: The Wild West or the Financing of the Future?
in which panelists discussed the current legal and regulatory
regimes that govern this space and the need for standards and
further regulation. The Section cosponsored another CLE
Showcase panel, The Future of Policing: Ending Senseless
Violence and Igniting Transformative Reform [photo below]
where panelists discussed limits on qualified immunity for po-
lice, a ban on no-knock warrants and holding police officers
accountable as transformative reform measures. The Section
also presented its annual program, Annual Review and Pre-
view of the Supreme Court's Term, Criminal Cases.
Outgoing CJS Chair April Frazier Camara gave her closing
statements as chair and passed the gavel to Incoming Chair
Wayne McKenzie, who is the CJS chair for the 2021 - 2022
ABA year.
The Criminal Justice Council voted to submit five resolutions
at the Annual Meeting to the ABA House of Delegates. The
House of Delegates adopted the following Criminal Justice
Section-sponsored resolutions:
* 503 - Urges Congress to create and fund to study the con-
sequences of the mass incarceration of African Ameri-
cans living in the U.S.
* 504 - Urges prosecutors to update their case management
systems, allowing for transparency to ensure a more fair
and equitable justice system.
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505 - Urges raising the minimum of juvenile delin
quents to 14.
* 506 - Urges lawmakers to end the use of chemical agents
on youth in Juvenile/correctional facilities; educate justice
system personal about adverse effects of chemical agents
on children.
* 507 - Urges abolishment of private prisons and termina-
tion of contracts with private prisons.
CJS Chair, 2021-2022
Wayne McKenzie
The ABA Criminal Justice Section's new Chair for 2021-
2022 is Wayne McKenzie, the General Counsel at the
New York City Department of Probation.
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