Legislative Toolkit: Visit Your Senator or Member of Congress

Legislative visits are an important part of the Face the Truth campaign. When you speak to your representative, you can explain how racial profiling impacts your particular community, and ask them to take steps to end racial profiling. The federal End Racial Profiling Act of 2011 has been introduced in the House and the Senate: ask your senator or congressperson to co-sponsor this piece of legislation.

If you are planning a legislative visit, check out the toolkit and resource packet, and check in with RWG staff about your specific legislative targets.

This 2-part Toolkit provides information to help you advocate for a stop to racial profiling with your Members of Congress.  While you visit your Congressional offices at home, we will work in DC to tell Congressional representatives that we must prohibit racial profiling at all levels of government and eliminate any federal programs that allow this degrading practice to go unchecked.  Join campaign partners of the Racial Profiling: Face the Truth campaign in exercising your civil and political rights.  

The Toolkit also comes with a Resource Packet containing various educational one pagers you can leave with the Congressional offices to provide more information and some background materials to prepare you for your visit.

Other 2011 Resources

• Dear Colleague letter on sponsoring ERPA
• ERPA Section-by-Section Analysis
• Organizational Sign-on Letter (September 2011)
• ERPA text (October 2011)

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Get the Complete Toolkit
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Download the full 2011 RWG Legislative Visits Toolkit (pdf, 840.87 KB)

Download the Congressional Visit Report Back Form (pdf or word document) or complete the form online.

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Get sections from the 2011 RWG Legislative Visits Toolkit: Resource Packet
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Drop Pieces

• Issue Brief: Racial Profiling: Unjust, Ineffective and Counterproductive
• Issue Brief: Introduce and Pass the "End Racial Profiling Act" in 2011
• Bill Summary: End Racial Profiling Act
• Issue Brief: Immigration Enforcement by State and Local Police and Racial Profiling
• Issue Brief: Full of Holes: The 2003 Department of Justice Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies

Background Materials

• ERPA: How It Has Changed
• Talking Points
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Congressional Committee Analysis
• Media Guide