Care First Kern

@carefirstkernca

Joined December 2022

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Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · May 21

WE are left out of budget decisions. We want transparency and real investments with our tax dollars. Family support and safe neighborhoods. Join the KCCJ to tell Bakersfield City Council and Mayor: Our Tax Dollars, Our Community, Our Future #BakersfieldVoices #CommunityOverCops

carefirstkernca's tweet image. WE are left out of budget decisions. We want transparency and real investments with our tax dollars. Family support and safe neighborhoods. Join the KCCJ to tell Bakersfield City Council and Mayor: Our Tax Dollars, Our Community, Our Future #BakersfieldVoices #CommunityOverCops

Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · Jul 15

AB 2761, McCarty. Deaths while in law enforcement custody. Whether it's state prison or local jail, every life matters. It ensures no death in custody goes unreported. No more vague reports. AB 2761 requires full transparency: Who, Where, How, and Why.

carefirstkernca's tweet image. AB 2761, McCarty. Deaths while in law enforcement custody. Whether it's state prison or local jail, every life matters. It ensures no death in custody goes unreported. No more vague reports. AB 2761 requires full transparency: Who, Where, How, and Why.

Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · Jul 14

AB 2761, McCarty. Deaths while in law enforcement custody. Whether it's state prison or local jail, every life matters. ITensures no death in custody goes unreported. No more vague reports. AB 2761 requires full transparency: Who, Where, How, and Why.

Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · Jul 6

USA, are you ok ?

UUS Homeland Security News@defense_civil25 · Jul 5

Coming on July 4, 2026!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · Jun 23

Join us at the California City’s City Council meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 5pm to tell city representatives we don’t want a BILLION-dollar corporation that profits over human suffering to open an immigration detention center in Cal City!

carefirstkernca's tweet image. Join us at the California City’s City Council meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 5pm to tell city representatives we don’t want a BILLION-dollar corporation that profits over human suffering to open an immigration detention center in Cal City!

Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · Jun 18

Juneteenth celebrations planned in Bakersfield with events throughout the week bakersfieldnow.com/news/eyewitnes…

carefirstkernca's tweet card. This week marks the celebration of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.Patrick Jackson Junior, president of the NAACP Bakersfield

Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · Jun 18

Kern County participates in nationwide 'No Kings' protests bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/bak…

Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · Jun 10

What happened during three days of protests over immigration raids in downtown L.A. latimes.com/california/liv…

carefirstkernca's tweet card. Coverage of the protests in downtown Los Angeles over President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops.

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Prison Policy Initiative@PrisonPolicy · Jun 10

🗓️TOMORROW Communities across the US are proposing spending millions (sometimes billions) on new jails – but new, bigger jails don't make anyone safer. This webinar will discuss how you can push back against jail expansion. Register here 👇 zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · Jun 3

📢 SB 519 (Atkins) This California law is a huge step forward for transparency and accountability in local jails and detention centers. ✨ Key changes under SB 519: A State Director of In-Custody Death Review will now oversee investigations into deaths behind bars.

carefirstkernca's tweet image. 📢 SB 519 (Atkins)
This California law is a huge step forward for transparency and accountability in local jails and detention centers.

✨ Key changes under SB 519:

A State Director of In-Custody Death Review will now oversee investigations into deaths behind bars.

Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · May 22

Hundreds die in CA jails yearly—many pretrial or serving short terms. AB 2521 requires agencies to report these deaths, but we need more than data—we need justice. 🗣 Incarcerated people have rights 📞 Call your reps 📲 Share their stories #AB2521 #JusticeForAll #EndTheSilence

carefirstkernca's tweet image. Hundreds die in CA jails yearly—many pretrial or serving short terms. AB 2521 requires agencies to report these deaths, but we need more than data—we need justice.

🗣 Incarcerated people have rights
📞 Call your reps
📲 Share their stories
#AB2521 #JusticeForAll #EndTheSilence

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People's Action@PplsAction · May 20

This week: ✅ People’s Action is in D.C. telling Congress: Don’t gut health care & housing to fund billionaire tax breaks ✅ Volunteers are phone banking to stop Medicaid & climate cuts ✅ YOU can take action from anywhere → ppls.ac/whatyoucando #StopTheCuts

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Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · May 20

'Surge' of violence prompts crackdown in California prison system, officials say latimes.com/california/sto…

carefirstkernca's tweet card. The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three inmates were killed in attacks at three different prisons.

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Prison Policy Initiative@PrisonPolicy · May 17

The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on earth — worse, every single state incarcerates more people per capita than most nations. prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.ht…

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Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · May 19

Newsom moves to close another state prison. That makes 5 since he took office calmatters.org/justice/2025/0… While these initiatives aim to create a more effective justice system, they have faced opposition from local communities concerned about economic impacts and job losses.

carefirstkernca's tweet card. California’s falling incarcerated population has allowed Gov. Gavin Newsom to close four state prisons. Now he’s calling for a fifth.

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Vera Institute of Justice@verainstitute · May 14

The United States incarcerates 1.8 million people—but the reach of mass incarceration extends beyond prison walls. Another 3.7 million people are trapped in the system through probation or parole, living under strict supervision and the constant threat of incarceration for…

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Prison Policy Initiative@PrisonPolicy · May 13

Across the US, 113 million adults have an immediate family member who has ever been to prison or jail. Mass incarceration has far-reaching consequences that don't stop at the prison gates.

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Prison Policy Initiative@PrisonPolicy · May 12

A reminder during National Police Week: Police contact of any kind is not innocuous. Most police killings start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported. prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12/1…

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Care First Kern@carefirstkernca · May 12

‘I don’t know what I’m going to do’: Hundreds at Kern County Dept. of Human Services seek answers over lost funds kget.com/news/local-new…

carefirstkernca's tweet card. “I have to figure out a way to pay my bills. My electricity may get shut off.”

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Prison Policy Initiative@PrisonPolicy · May 8

Only 1 in 6 women on probation or parole can access abortion care at any stage of their pregnancy w/o needing permission to cross state lines. This means for a majority of 800,000 women on probation or parole, the ability to travel for an abortion is in the hands of OFFICERS.

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