For this milestone, you will identify and analyze a current proposed bill at the city, parish/county, state, or federal level that relates to the issue/problem that is the focus of your social change campaign project. This is an important exercise toward identifying potential legislation and developing an advocacy and lobbying strategy in response to it.

First, review this session’s resources, including the article Lobbying: A guide for move to amend affiliates (Links to an external site.) and then identify a bill that is currently being proposed (at the city, parish/county, state, or federal level) that relates to the issue/problem that is the focus of your social change campaign project. Next, write a 2–3 page plan to influence this legislation. Include information about the current status of the bill, relevant legislators and/or committee members who are championing the bill, plans to persuade your identified policymakers, and plans to partner with community leaders to generate support for the bill.

The following critical elements must be addressed:

• Description: Identify the bill and discuss its current state: What is the underlying issue/problem the bill is trying to address? Who are the current supporters of the bill and what kind of efforts have they engaged in to garner support? What will be changed if this bill is enacted?

• Outreach Strategies:
  • Organization: Who do you plan to reach out to in order to generate support for the bill? What plans do you have to have to use constituents to influence the bill/legislation? Please specifically identify community groups who can help influence this legislation.
  • Lobbying Strategy: How do you plan on persuading legislators to support the bill? For example, do you plan on including messaging such as personal stories, letters, and face-to-face meetings? What is influencing your strategy?

• Analysis: Do you agree with the approach the bill is taking? Does it go far enough to ameliorating the root cause of the issue? Can you suggest another approach that you think could be more helpful?

Be sure to include feedback on this milestone into your final Advocacy Plan due in Session 14.

This assignment is due at 11:59 p.m. CST the evening before our next live session.

Rubric

*The focus of my social campaign is to end police brutality against African Americans. It is centered around the Black Lives Matter Movement.

*The bill I would like included is Louisiana House Bill signed into law as ACT 210 by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on June 16th, 2017. It was proposed that by July 1, 2018, all police officers would be required to go through training in de-escalating volatile situations, recognizing bias, crisis intervention and what to do if there is a sudden death of someone in police custody. This training could be done in a classroom or over the internet. There is a strong need for diversity training within Baton Rouge Police Department.

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