Agenda

APRIL 7

3:45 pm: WELCOME AND CONFERENCE OPENING REMARKS

• Camille Gear Rich, Director, PRISM – The Initiative for the Study of Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Law, USC Gould School of Law
• Elyn Saks, Director, Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, USC Gould School of Law

4:00 pm: INTERSECTIONALITY ISSUES IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT

• Moderator: Renee Smith Maddox, Clinical Associate Professor, USC School of Social Work
• Moderator: Mario Barnes, Professor of Law, Co-Director, Center on Law, Equality and Race, UC Irvine School of Law
• Melina Abdullah, Black Lives Matter Movement, Chair of the Pan-African Studies department at Cal State LA
• Pete White, Black Lives Matter Movement, Founder and Co-Director of Los Angeles Community Action

7:00 pm RECEPTION AND DISCUSSION: BLACK LIVES MATTER – FUTURE

APRIL 8

8:50 am: OPENING REMARKS

• Andrew T. Guzman, Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law, USC Gould School of Law

9:00 am – 10:30 am RACE, GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION STEREOTYPES IN USE OF FORCE CASES

• Moderator: Camille Gear Rich, Director, PRISM – The Initiative for the Study of Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Law, USC Gould School of Law
• Rabia Belt, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
• Carmelo Valone, Author and Activist, MSW candidate, USC School of Social Work
• GS Potter, PhD, Community Activist and Educator
• Lawrence Carter-Long, Co-author, Ruderman White Paper on Media Coverage of Law Enforcement Use of Force and Disability

10:40 am – 12:20 pm CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING TRENDS

• Moderator: Kimberly Finney, PsyD., MS, Board Certified Psychologist, Clinical Associate Professor, USC School of Social Work
• Claudia Center, Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Program, ACLU Detective
• Charles Dempsey, Officer in Charge, Crisis Response Support Section, Mental Evaluation Training Detail, Los Angeles Police Department
• Linda Boyd, Mental Health Clinical Program Head, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health

12:30 pm LUNCH PRESENTATION

• Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County District Attorney

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES “WANTED”: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM GAP-FILLING

• Moderator: Rafael Angulo, Professor, USC School of Social Work Risdon Slate, PhD, Professor of Criminology, Department Chair, Florida Southern College
• Mark Gale, Criminal Justice Chair, NAMI Los Angeles County Council David Meyer, JD, Clinical Professor, Coordinator of Psychiatry and Criminal Law Training, USC Institute of Psychiatry, Law, and Behavioral Science

3:40 pm – 5:10 pm DISABILITY RIGHTS LITIGATION AND USE OF FORCE CASES

• Moderator: Ann McGinley, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, UNLV Boyd School of Law
• Peter Blanck, University Professor & Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University
• Leonard Feldman, JD, Partner at Peterson Wampold Rosato Luna Knopp

5:10 – 5:15 pm CLOSING REMARKS