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During the fire season of 2020 the prospects, hopes, and futures of California’s nearly 4,000 formerly-incarcerated firefighters were lifted with the passage of Assembly Bill 2147. Created during the Second World War, the California Conservation Camp Program has been a critical fixture of the state’s fire management apparatus. Despite their training and experience as part of California’s emergency management system, these firefighters have traditionally faced challenging career prospects with fire management agencies.

Assembly Bill 2147, authored by Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Reyes, allows California’s nearly 4,000 formerly-incarcerated firefighters to achieve a career the fire-fighting profession.

Join us for an online conversation – free and open to public and academic audiences – with Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Reyes in a conversation with community stakeholders, in recognizing the history, development, passage, and future of this landmark legislation – that provides a pathway for judicial expungement.

Eloise Gómez Reyes, Assembly Majority Leader. In 2016, Reyes was sworn in as a California State Assemblymember for the 47th Assembly District. She is the Chair of the Assembly Human Services Committee and also serves on the Aging and Long-Term Care Committee, Budget Committee, Judiciary Committee, Utilities and Energy Committee and Legislative Ethics Committee. In her first two terms Reyes championed bills and issues that increase equity and inclusion in vulnerable communities throughout the state. These efforts include AB 2147 which lead a national conversation on second chances for inmate firefighters giving them a pathway to expunge their records and pursue a career in firefighting. Eloise, a proud daughter of immigrants, has been a champion for her community throughout her career. Reyes graduated from Colton High School and received her A.A. from San Bernardino Valley College. She received her Bachelors of Science degree at the University of Southern California and then Reyes went on to earn her law degree from Loyola Law School.

Esteban Núñez, Director of Advocacy and Community Organizing, Anti-Recidivism Coalition. As the son of a local activist and union organizer, Núñez was first introduced to civic engagement and activism at an early age. He served six years of confinement in California, yet used this time to think deeply, explore his past, and pursue a direction of greater purpose. Having thought long and hard about the ways in which his actions had impacted others, Nuñez works to change the misconceptions and negative stigmas associated with criminality as Director of State Advocacy for the Anti-Recidivism Coalition.

Edward Lopez, Firefighter. Lopez is a firefighter at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

In conversation with ICW Director Bill Deverell.

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