CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE
| The Center for Judicial Excellence, is a community-based organization established to improve the judiciary’s public accountability and strengthen and maintain the integrity of the courts. |
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>> Click here to read recent press featuring CJE! |
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| Audit Request Passed! | ||
California's Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) has unanimously passed Senator Mark Leno's request to audit the Marin and Sacramento County Family Courts! Click here to read Sentor Leno's press release. >>Click here to view yesterday's JLAC hearing on the California Channel Note: Our audit presentation begins at 46:33 mins into the hearing, and ends at 1:10:40 mins, so it lasts about 24 minutes. Media outlets across the state & nation are reposting Gary Klien's July 1 article about the audit: > Marin IJ, July 1, 2009 And the July 1 Associated Press story has legs: TV PRINT |
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| Alameda Hearing | ||
Media outlets across California & the nation have picked up the Bay Area News Group story about CJE's Oakland event with Supervisor Gail Steele! > Oakland Tribune, June 12, 2009 Thanks to everyone involved in making this event a great success! |
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| Pacific Sun Feature! | ||
CJE is front and center in the May 29th Click here to check it out and don't forget to leave a comment! |
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| CJE Awarded Agape Grant! | ||
CJE is honored to have recently received a grant from the Agape Foundation - Fund for Nonviolent Social Change to help support our grassroots organizing work. Click here to learn more about the Agape Foundation. |
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| 2009 Advocacy | ||||
CJE remains committed to educating policymakers at all levels about the systemic gaps within the courts, as well as potential solutions. Click here to learn more about CJE's 2009 legislative priorities. CJE specifically advocates for the creation of a Judicial Performance Evaluation (JPE) System in California, a proven method being used in 19 states to educate voters about the performance of the judges they elect. JPE's evaluate judges' adherence to the Canons of Judicial Ethics that they swear to uphold - and not the popularity or politics of their decisions. Click here to learn more about JPE's. CJE's issues are making it all the way to Washington DC! In the photo above, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer speaks about his personal commitment to improving accountability in family law at a small Capitol Hill briefing on March 23rd. CJE's family law documentary was also shown at the briefing in DC. |
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Family Law Documentary |
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As part of our ongoing effort to educate and engage the community, CJE produced a 42-minute documentary addressing the serious systemic breakdown of our family courts. Family Court Crisis: Our Children At Risk features personal testimony from individuals who have experienced the pitfalls of our family law system and expert evaluations of what has gone wrong. Click here to view a 12-minute documentary trailer or click here to order your own copy of the full-length, 42-minute DVD. To plan a screening, contact Steve at 415-459-9211 ext. 25. |
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Public Forums & Events |
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CJE hosts regular public forums to encourage an ongoing community dialogue about the judiciary.
We'll be posting details about other upcoming events soon. Click here to learn more about our past public events or watch a forum video. The photos below were taken at the Sacramento premier of CJE's photo exhibit and at our very first community forum, which featured the California Commission on Judicial Performance's own Victoria Henley, way back in September 2006. |
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WWW www.centerforjudicialexcellence.org |