This worksheet is for U.S.-based advocates, legal teams, filmmakers and incarcerated individuals interested in using video to support calls for clemency, parole or sentencing mitigation.
Use this checklist to determine if video is the right tool to support your client in pre-sentencing, parole, clemency proceedings, or for any other legal strategy.
These tips are for advocates and lawyers using video to support incarcerated individuals seeking clemency and parole.
This workflow is for advocates, legal teams and filmmakers producing legal advocacy videos to consider before, during and after filming.
These presentation slides are for advocates, lawyers, filmmakers and anyone interested in using video as a storytelling tool for helping an incarcerated individual seek clemency, parole or sentencing mitigation.
These tips for advocates, filmmakers and legal teams can help simplify the legal video advocacy production process.
WITNESS’ Legal Video Advocacy Program offers trainings and resources for advocates, lawyers and incarcerated individuals interested in using video to help reduce client sentences, and advocate for decarceration through clemency and parole.
As part of our ongoing campaign around the Right to Record, our global team hosted a conversation about how this right is practiced around the world, and how it impacts people using their cameras to defend human rights. Watch on Facebook to and join
This post recaps the WITNESS US team’s recent video evidence and advocacy trainings with immigrant rights defenders and attorneys in Tijuana, Mexico.
Following the police killings of Michael Brown Jr. and Eric Garner in 2014, many people advocated for the widespread adoption of police body cameras as a solution to ending systemic police abuse and increasing transparency. Yet, they haven’t been effective. Now, more than five years later, we look back at our initial predictions, take stock in what we’ve learned and offer recommendations for moving forward.