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The Wren Collective
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The Wren Collective works to transform public safety and the legal system to ensure fairness, dignity, and opportunity for all. "Freedom is a pure idea."

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The Wren Collective's @jrbrand07.bsky.social reflects On Extradition, ICE & Abbott in this Wren Collective essay.

Read & subscribe here: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/on-extradi...
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August 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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UPDATE! CA AB 2605 (supported by the Wren Collective and its partners) passes the CA Senate unanimously!
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Positive news alert! CA AB 2605 advances to Appropriations. The bill would require counties to report public defender caseload numbers, a significant step in tackling the state's caseload crisis.

The Wren Collective full statement here: medium.com/@wrencollect...
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August 26, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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As AB 690 heads to the CA Senate, Asm. Schultz notes the importance of regulating harmful flat-fee defense contracts, citing @wrencollective.bsky.social and UC Berkeley's report on the issue
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August 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Latest @wrencollective.bsky.social newsletter examines federal attacks on progressive prosecutors and how necessary brave independent local leaders are to challenge federal overreach
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August 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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New messaging from the Wren Collective's We Are Safety campaign that covers #CORCA, #HR5213 and #HR5625, an extension of the federal weaponization of safety and crime to hide their power grabs and budget cuts.
Visit the site: www.wearesafety.info/federal-bill
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August 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Read the report from The Wren Collective and UC Berkeley to learn more about the harms of flat fee criminal defense contracts: wrencollective.org/contracted-t...
July 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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The administration's "war of fraud" is really a war on poor people and people of color. Read today's Wren Collective which explains and contextualizes what's happening:

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July 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Essential reading about pervasive injustice in California via flat-fee contracts for criminal defense. Part 2 of The Wren Collective's Contracted to Fail publication with UC Berkeley Ctr for Criminal Law & Justice

Read here: wrencollective.org/contracted-t...
July 21, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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How to build justice and safety for our next 250 years-- a two part Wren Collective newsletter

Part 1: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/the-next-2...

Part 2: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/the-next-2...
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July 13, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Thoughts from The Wren Collective's Julia Brown on the intersection of federal immigration detention and deportation policy pushed by the state of TX and the World Cup-- as North TX hosts it

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July 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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The Court just announced its 6-3 holding in Chatrie that a geofence warrrant is a 4thA search-- The Wren Collective newsletter covered this case earlier this year.

Read and subscribe: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/mass-surve...
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June 29, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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@beckysilber.bsky.social writes for the Wren Collective substack about seeing the play Fear of 13 - and what she wishes the audience knew.
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June 26, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Good news report: "The death row population in the U.S. has dropped below 2,000 for the first time since the 1980s"
U.S. Death Row Population Drops Below 2,000 for First Time Since 1980s
The death row population in the U.S. has dropped below 2,000 for the first time since the 1980s, according to the latest report on national capital punishment trends released by the civil rights think...
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June 23, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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The connection between Alligator Alcatraz and the Jan 6 rioter slush fund? Brazen corruption-- public policy as a series of $$ giveways to political allies. Read about "Justice for Sale" in today's Wren Collective newsletter: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/justice-fo...
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June 22, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Exciting news from CA courtesy of @calmatters.org -- The Wren Collective is a proud partner in this critical effort to advance justice in CA through public defense reform
#RightToCounsel #sixthamendment #JusticeforAll
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June 16, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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Join us next week for this Wren Collective conversation with Dr. John Roman
Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
6/18 @ 1pm ET
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June 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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The Wren Collective's Jay Jenkins writes for TX on Fire about how school police in TX impair student learning and safety.

Read and subscribe to TX on Fire: substack.com/home/post/p-...

#letkidsbekids #justiceforall #schooltoprisonpipeline #texasonfire
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June 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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The federal and state attacks on trans rights attack so many critical legal guardrails-- on privacy, liberty and jurisdiction, to name a few. The latest Wren Collective newsletter does a round up of what is happening. Link in comments.

#transrights #wrencollective #justiceforall
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May 26, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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A plea bargain from the TX AG's office is a reminder of how the TX politician outrage machine and scapegoating on crime only targets some TX prosecutors.

Read more in Texas on Fire: wrenactiongroup.substack.com/p/what-we-ca...

#texasonfire #communitysafety #criminaljustice
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May 19, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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These attacks on the judiciary also undermine core democratic values like judicial independence and the separation of powers.
Read the whole essay by Wren Collective executive Jessica Brand on our website from ABA Magazine:
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May 15, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Read about how CA policymakers are grappling with the state's public defender workload crisis. This terrific piece by @calmatters.org cites the Wren Collective's research and staff.
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May 14, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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The most recent Wren Collective newsletter puts the #scotus #Callais decision in context: part of a broader undoing of 20th century civil rights legislation and policy.

read and subscribe here: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/jim-and-ja...
Wren Collective newsletter on civil rights rollbacks illustrated by an image of a protest with a "stop racism" sign
May 11, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Great piece in the LAT on last week's important victory in the CA Sup Ct for pretrial reform. The Wren Collective esp appreciates the connection between pretrial reform and needed public defense reform in CA.
#publicdefense #justiceforallCA #pretrialreform
May 6, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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Wren Collective executive director Jessica Brand writes about the "new norm" of state and federal legislative and rhetorical attacks on the judiciary.

In ABA's Criminal Justice magazine: www.americanbar.org/groups/crimi...
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May 5, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Join our Wren Collective briefing on FRIDAY, 5/8 @ 1CT/2CT to hear from the Minneapolis DA and City Council President on the FIGHT FOR MINNEAPOLIS: what happened and what is still happening; how they responded and what they've learned.

REGISTER HERE: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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May 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM