Who is in opposition

Prop 36 has a broad coalition of opposers

Community organizations, advocates, impacted individuals, elected officials, and everyday people are united in their commitment to advancing equitable and care-first solutions.

Nonprofit and Community-Based Organizations

  • Vision Tolteca LLC

  • Ground Game LA

  • League of Women Voters of California

  • Million Voter Project

  • Oakland Rising Action

  • Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA)

  • San Jose Nikkei Resisters

  • Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

  • ACLU of Northern California

  • ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties 

  • ACLU of Southern California

  • Chinese for Affirmative Action 

  • NAACP CA/HI State Conference

  • Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice California

  • OC Survivors

  • VALORUS

  • Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative

  • Survived and Punished

  • Californians for Safety and Justice

  • Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 

  • Smart Justice California

  • Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment

  • NAMI Huntington 

  • Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

  • Bridges of Hope California

  • Justice2Jobs Coalition

  • Western Center on Law and Poverty

  • Rising Worldwide 

  • Buen Vecino

  • Evolve California 

  • California Green New Deal

  • Free Speech Coalition 

  • Drug Policy Alliance

  • Fresno Homeless Union

  • National Alliance to End Homelessness

  • People's Homeless Task Force Orange County

  • ACCE Action

  • Corporation for Supportive Housing

  • Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice

  • Orange County Rapid Response Network 

  • Immigrant Defenders Law Center

  • Centro del Inmigrante CDI 

  • ÓRALE 

  • California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance

  • League of United latin American Citizens District 5 LULAC de Inland Empire

  • Law Office of Vonya Quarles

  • Orthwein Law, PC

  • Los Angeles LGBT Center

  • Somos Familia Valle

  • Gender Justice LA

  • UnCommon Law

  • National Harm Reduction Coalition

  • One Voice Recovery, Inc.

  • Up North Harm Reduction

  • Steinberg Institute

  • Law Enforcement Action Partnership

  • Prosecutors Alliance Action

  • Catalyst California

  • Haywood Burns Institute

  • Resilience Orange County

  • Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)

  • BAJI Action

  • Long Beach Forward

  • SURJ - Showing Up for Racial Justice Santa Cruz County

  • Boundless Freedom Project

  • GRIP Program

  • Health and Anti-Recidivism Project

  • Prison Yoga Project

  • Rebound Institute

  • The Change Parallel Project

  • TheatreWorkers Project

  • Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore

  • Transformative Programming Works

  • California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

  • Just Detention International

  • Small Business Forward

  • Anti Police-Terror Project

  • California Black Power Network

  • California Coalition for Women Prisoners

  • Chispa

  • Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice

  • Courage California

  • Decarcerate Orange County

  • Ella Baker Center Action Fund

  • Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

  • National Youth Justice Network 

  • In Our Care San Mateo County

  • San Mateo County Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Commission

  • Dignity & Power Now Action Fund

  • Empowering Marginalized Asian Communities

  • Equal Justice USA

  • Essie Justice Group

  • Fannie Lou Hamer Institute

  • Initiate Justice Action

  • Restoring Hope California 

  • San Francisco Rising

  • Secure Justice

  • Silicon Valley De-Bug

  • Sister Warriors Freedom Coaliton 

  • Starting Over Strong

  • Whole Consulting LC 

  • SWOP Behind Bars 

  • East Contra Costa Community Alliance

  • Erotic Service Providers Legal, Educaton and Research Project

  • LA Forward Institute

  • Inland Empire United

  • La Defensa

  • Asian Prisoner Support Committee

  • Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)

  • Long Beach Forward

  • Chinese Progressive Association

  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California

  • Care First Kern

  • Initiate Justice  

  • Justice Reinvestment Coalition

  • Reimagine Richmond

  • Vera Action

  • Vera Institute of Justice

  • Stripper Worker Center

  • SWOPLA

  • NextGen California

  • GLIDE

  • Marty's Place Affordable Housing Corporation

  • San Francisco Pretrial Diversion Project

  • We Are Not Invisible

  • Let's Make It Happen

  • Starting Over, Inc. 

  • Center for Employment Opportunities 

  • DeafHope

  • Women For: Orange County

  • San Francisco Women's Political Committee

  • Women For: Orange County

  • Urban Peace Movement

Political Groups

  • California Democratic Party

  • Santa Monica Democratic Club

  • Iranian American Democrats of California

  • Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club

  • The Richmond District Democratic Club

  • Bernal Heights Democratic Club 

  • San Fernando Valley Young Democrats

Faith-Based Organizations

  • American Friends Service Committee

  • LA Voice

  • Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity 

  • Anchor of Hope International Ministries, Inc.

  • Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE)

  • Faith in Action Bay Area

  • Bend the Arc: Jewish Action California

  • PICO California

Labor

  • AFSCME CA 

  • California Nurses Association

  • Communication Workers of America District 9 (CWA)

  • CWA District 9

  • Local 148 Los Angeles County Public Defenders Union

  • NUHW

  • SEIU California

  • UAW Region 6

  • California Teachers Association

  • California Public Defenders Association

  • Public Defenders Association

Elected Officials, Political Candidates, And INDIVIDUALS

  • Senator Alex Padilla

  • SF Public Defender Mano Raju

  • City Councilmember Sandy Brown

  • Asm. Josh Lowenthal

  • Senator Dave Cortese

  • Congresswoman Judy Chu

  • Assemblymember Chris Holden

  • Assemblymember Matt Haney

  • Assemblymember Sharon Quirk Silva

  • Franky Carrillo, Candidate for Assembly District 52

  • Richmond City Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin

  • Richmond City Councilmember Melvin Willis

  • Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, Los Angeles

  • Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia

  • Former San Francisco Police Commissioner Angela Chan

  • Mayor Darrell Steinberg, City of Sacramento

  • Richmond City Councilmember Soheila Bana

  • Santa Monica City Councilmember Carolyn Torosis

  • Supervisor Hilda Solis, Los Angeles County

  • Supervisor Hillary Ronen, San Francisco District 9

  • Supervisor Holly Mitchell, LA County

  • Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, Los Angeles County

  • Supervisor Justin Cummings, Santa Cruz County

  • Asm. Alex Lee

  • Asm. Anthony Rendon

  • Asm. Ash Kalra

  • Asm. Chris Ward

  • Asm. Corey Jackson

  • Asm. Gregg Hart

  • Asm. Gregg Hart

  • Asm. Isaac Bryan

  • Asm. Tina McKinnor

  • California Legislative Black Caucus

  • California Legislative Progressive Caucus

  • Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire

  • Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas

  • Senator Nancy Skinner

  • Speaker Robert Rivas

  • Asm. Mia Bonta

  • Asm. Reggie Jones-Sawyer

  • Senator Scott Wiener

  • Controller Malia Cohen

  • Governor Gavin Newsom

  • District Attorney Diana Becton, Contra Costa County

  • District Attorney George Gascon, Los Angeles County

  • District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Santa Clara County

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