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UPAN Monthly Meeting – January 2016

Salt Lake City Library 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Get to know your Legislator (Bring Your Legislator To UPAN Meeting)

We are asking our UPAN participants to contact their local representatives and senators and invite them to our January 2016 meeting. You can find out who they are by going to: le.utah.gov. E-mail them, call them, and send them a written invitation. This will only be successful if we all do our part to invite them!

If you wish to speak at this meeting, please arrive about 10 – 15 minutes early to sign up on the speakers list. We will begin on time at 6:30 p.m.

Agenda & Objectives:

1. This will put a face to the names we hear about up on the Hill. And they will get to put a face to the constituents they represent.
2. We can give first hand stories about the real people being affected by the laws they are passing.
3. We can let them know what we would like to see happen with new criminal justice reform. This will be accomplished the same way we did when Ron Gordon of the CCJJ came. There will be a list for participants (you) to sign up in order to speak. Each speaker will get up to five minutes to express their views. We would like this to be a positive experience for all involved, so no negativity will be accepted. Our representatives should come away with an appreciation of everything we as families, and our incarcerated loved ones, are going though. We hope to share, ideas that continue to facilitate positive change. We need their help, they need our experience, and we need them to be on the side of truth, fairness, and healing. Free and open to the public.

Free

UPAN Monthly Meeting – March 2016

Hunter Library 4740 West 4100 South, West Valley City, UT, United States

UPAN Monthly Meeting - March 2016 we welcome Kade Minchey from the Utah Office of the Auditor General to give a presentation on the Legislative Audit of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole.

Free

UPAN Monthly Meeting – April 2016

Holladay Library 2150 East Murray-Holladay Road (4730 South), Holladay, UT, United States

UPAN Monthly Meeting - April 2016

Free

FOCUS Meeting – May 2016

Adult Probation and Parole Office 36 West Fremont Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Four of the new DOC leaders will be there to explain any new directions they may be bringing to their assignments. The guests are: Jim Hudspeth, Director of AP&P; James Chipp, Director of the Inmate Placement Program; Glenn Ercanbrack, Region 3 Administrator (Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties); and Jeremy Sharp, Law Enforcement Bureau Chief. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. so get there a little early in order to be taken back to the Training Room.

Free

UPAN Monthly Meeting – May 2016

Draper Library 1136 East Pioneer Road (12400 South), Draper

Please join UPAN for our next monthly meeting. Our guest will be Andrew McCullough who will be running for Utah Attorney General. We will hear from him about what the AG office does. UPAN families can share with him their concerns about Criminal Justice Issues in Utah. While the AG’s office doesn’t have a significant role in criminal justice reform, it does sometimes push legislation that impacts the criminal justice system, and not always for the better. It is also our understanding that the Attorney General’s office works under the Governor, so that office COULD have some influence in how the Governor approaches criminal justice reform. Free and open to the public.

Free

UPAN Monthly Meeting – June 2016

Salt Lake City Library 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Please join UPAN for our next monthly meeting. LEGISLATOR NIGHT. This will be another Share with your Legislator meeting. We will invite our state legislators (you are encouraged to invite your own as well as UPAN inviting them). We are also hoping to invite candidates who are running this year. UPAN families may sign up to share their concerns about the Criminal Justice System and Prison issues. Each person is asked to keep their comments to the point, (3 minutes) as we will also ask if any of our legislators want to share what they may be working on in terms of criminal justice related legislation for the 2017 session. Meet in Conference Rooms A-B-C downstairs below Main Library Foyer. Free and open to the public.

Free

UPAN Monthly Meeting – August 2016

Ruth Vine Tyler Library 8041 Wood Street, Midvale, UT, United States

The Impact of Sex Offender Registries on Offenders and Families

Please join UPAN for our next monthly meeting, presented by Matt Duhamel, Metamora Films. This is the presentation he made at the 2016 Prisoner Family Conference in Texas earlier this year. Matt Duhamel, a former TV news and radio personality, has turned his attention to helping others through the power of independent film. He agrees with the idea that film can help individuals, communities and entire societies by increasing compassion, tolerance, understanding and forgiveness. By learning from his own personal trials and past failures, Matt uses his experiences as life changing tools and applies them to his thought-provoking films. You may have noticed Matt and Heather Duhamel attending several of the past UPAN meetings filming for his current production called, "Not for Rent!" about ex-inmates' struggles with the Utah Good Landlord Program. We are very excited to have Matt as a guest speaker, you'll not want to miss his presentation. Free and open to the public.

Free

UPAN Meeting – September 2016

West Valley Library 2880 West 3650 South, West Valley City, UT, United States

Outpatient Sex Offender Treatment, Parole Stipulations and Group A and Group B Parole Conditions for Sex Offenders.

Free

UPAN Meeting – October 2016

Glendale Library 1375 South Concord Street (1240 West), Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Topic: Family Meeting

Free

UPAN Meeting – November 2016

Draper Library 1136 East Pioneer Road (12400 South), Draper

Anna Brower of the ACLU will discuss how California is working to fight Video Only Visitation in its jails. We can possibly learn what can be done in Utah about this problem. Free and open to the public.

Free

UPAN Meeting – January 2017

Holladay Library 2150 East Murray-Holladay Road (4730 South), Holladay, UT, United States

Topic TBA. Free and open to the public.

Free