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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – School discipline and transparency took the spotlight during a meeting Monday night of the Interfaith Coalition for Action, Reconciliation and Empowerment, also known as ICARE. The group considers itself a diverse, multi-issue organization that holds leaders accountable to act justly and fairly. Pastor Bruce Havens, the coalition’s co-president, delivered a strong suggestion to […]
Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Diana Greene has committed to ensuring that principals and administrators at each school receive restorative justice training by the next school year. At Monday’s Interfaith Coalition for Action Reconciliation and Empowerment (ICARE) Nehemiah Assembly at Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church, more than 1,500 people from 38 Duval County religious congregations joined […]
The scene for an ICARE meeting is impressive. There is a sea of people in the church pews, but they aren’t all from one congregation or faith: there are Christians, Jews, Unitarians, Baha’is and more, making up a wonderful human quilt of Jaclsonville. And the meeting they’re attending in this church won’t take hours: it’s […]
The sheriff has yet to provide compelling evidence to back up his agency’s use of pedestrian citations. And his decision to count criminal panhandling charges in his statistics has raised issues of trust. Sheriff Mike Williams said Monday that racially disparate pedestrian ticketing by his officers has dropped significantly since January, but he had a […]
By Jim Piggott – Reporter, Kent Justice – Anchor/reporter JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville’s sheriff and other elected officials were pressed on local issues, including “Walking While Black,” at an annual event Monday night that calls elected officials to accountability. Sheriff Mike Williams attended the meeting of church leaders hosted by the Interfaith Coalition for Action, […]
On March 27, 2017, 1,500 people in ICARE, an interfaith coalition of 38 local congregations, gathered at Abyssinia Baptist Church for an assembly addressing the problem of ex-offender re-entry. We heard from a former Jacksonville Reentry Center (JREC) client, Darian Jones. He spent 13 years in prison, and JREC was there before his release to […]
When Pastor Bruce Havens asked a mega-church packed with more than 1,000 people how many had been in prison or knew someone who has served time on Monday evening, nearly three quarters of the room rose to its feet. The arena-sized assembly room suddenly came to serve as a visual reminder of the reach of […]