The NCSC’s Racial and Ethnic Fairness Initiative was established to identify and create knowledge and practices that assist courts in implementing strategies that promote race and ethnic fairness in the courts themselves and in the justice system overall. The Race and Ethnic Fairness Initiative hopes to enhance the value of what was learned through previous state and national efforts, such as the Position Paper on State Courts’ Responsibility to Address Issues of Racial and Ethnic Fairness to promote fairness in the courts and generate new knowledge and strategies that can be applied in pursuit of the state courts’ agenda.

The Initiative provides the following services: 1) makes readily accessible the findings and recommendations of the various state task forces and commissions on race and ethnic fairness in the courts, and monitor progress reported by the states; 2) develop relevant educational materials for National Center constituency associations/groups; 3) serves as a resource to state court customers on questions relating to racial and ethnic fairness matters in the state courts.

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