Improve Public Safety — Support the Judicial Discretion Act!

The Judicial Discretion Act (HB1125) is currently stuck in the Appropriations Committee — and right now is the moment when community voices help move it forward in the legislative process.

This bill creates a fair, safe, and common-sense process to review long sentences for people who have demonstrated rehabilitation and pose a low risk of re-offense. It prioritizes the elderly, people who are terminally ill, and those sentenced as youth, while keeping judges, victims, and public safety at the center. This is not a get out of jail free card. Instead, this will bring about accountability, healing, ensuring our resources are used more wisely.

Lawmakers need to hear from you. A short message — just one minute of your time — can help move this bill out of Appropriations and closer to becoming law. For system-impacted people and their families, that one minute can mean hope, dignity, and a chance at justice.

Please take a moment today to contact your legislators and urge them to move HB1125 forward.

Advocacy works — and when our community shows up together, it has power.

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Dear Distinguished Members of the Appropriations Committee,

I urge you to move HB 1125 out of Appropriations and keep this important public-safety and justice reform moving forward.

HB1125 creates a fair, merit-based, sentence review process for people who have served long sentences, demonstrated significant rehabilitation, and pose a low risk of re-offense. While prosecutors were given the chance to request judicial sentence review under SB 6164 in 2020, only a few dozen cases have been addressed. This bill ensures that approximately 200 eligible individuals per year can request resentencing directly — rather than rely on prosecutorial gatekeeping.

I support the merits of this bill which prioritizes the elderly, terminally ill, and people who received extreme sentences as youth, and allows petitions only after many years. Judges must weigh rehabilitation, age at offense, victim input, and medical needs in determining whether to grant a hearing and whether to ultimately grant a new sentence. This is not a “get out of jail free” card - but a measured, thoughtful approach that relies on the same mechanism the legislature unanimously approved through SB6164 in 2020.

In light of how this issue affects Native American people the Affiliated Tribes of NW Indians passed a resolution urging lawmakers to pass this bill.

HB1125 improves public safety, supports survivors, advances racial justice, and makes more responsible use of taxpayer dollars. I know there is strong community support for reviewing long sentences when they no longer serve justice.

Please help move HB 1125 out of Appropriations and advance this fair, safe, and fiscally responsible reform.

Thank you for your time.