
Possibility Lab and the Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health (CCJBH) Announce Partnership to Develop Data Metrics and Visualizations to Keep Individuals with Behavioral Health Issues from Incarceration
The new partnership will foster evidence-based strategies aimed at alleviating the number of people with behavioral health needs in the criminal justice system.
Not Only for Academics: Using Research to Inform Policy, Institutions, and Government
by Postdoctoral Scholar Arvind Krishnamurthy When I began college at UNC-Chapel Hill, I thought that I would become a lawyer. I was passionate and interested in creating a more equitable
California Voters Voice Concerns Over Access to Basic Resources, New UC Possibility Lab and Institute of Governmental Studies Survey Finds
The Possibility Lab released findings from a poll administered in partnership with the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) that sheds light on Californians' struggles to access essential resources.
Welcoming Mistakes, Celebrating Progress, and Finding the Time to Get it All Done: Managing the Lab is All This and More
By Chief of Staff Emily Swide This time last year I was walking across the graduation stage after completing my Master of Public Policy degree at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School
NPR: California’s anti-hate hotline receives over 1,000 incident reports
In its first year, California’s anti-hate hotline received over 1,000 reported acts of hate, including 44 reported acts in Riverside County and 40 acts in San Bernardino County. That’s according
LA Times: It’s been one year since California launched a hate-crime hotline. Here’s what’s happened so far
In the year since California launched a hotline for reporting hate crimes, most of the calls were related to race or ethnicity, with 26.8% of calls citing anti-Black bias. The second-
SF Chronicle: California’s anti-hate hotline logged 1,000-plus reports in its first year, officials saySF Chronicle:
California’s anti-hate hotline, launched in response to a rising number of hate incidents in the state, documented slightly more than 1,000 reports in its first year, officials announced this week. Read the full article
SacBee: California started an anti-hate hotline. It received more than 1,000 reports after a year
Mina Fedor, who is Korean American, was in middle school when she learned of identity-based bullying. It was the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, when reports of anti-Asian incidents
Axios: California hate hotline documents 1,020 reports in first year
California’s first statewide reporting hotline for victims of hate incidents and crimes received 1,020 reports in its first year in service, according to preliminary data released by the state’s Civil Rights Department.