What is justice?

I’ve seen the answer to that question in every part of my life. Justice is the strength of the North Royalton union community I grew up in. Justice is security, and opportunity, for the low-income and first-generation community college students I taught at Tri-C. Justice is a criminal justice system that makes sure people don’t come back, rather than creating a revolving door.

Justice, above all, is a community that can heal and pass on its prosperity to future generations. 

We can build true justice here in Cuyahoga County, if we are serious about good policy. As your prosecutor, I will:

Target Crime that Harms Our Community

  • Focus on violent offenses, sex crimes, human trafficking, and abuses of power

  • Strengthen the Victim Witness Advocate program and increase access to services

  • Prioritize crimes such as wage theft, environmental dumping, and other under-enforced misconduct that harms working-class families

  • Create a dedicated public integrity unit to focus on misconduct by public servants and other powerful individuals

Build an Office in the People’s Interest

  • Restore and strengthen the Conviction Integrity Unit

  • End the practices of overcharging and coercive plea bargaining

  • Fight racial inequity in the criminal justice system by implementing fair, equitable, transparent processes for all

  • Build and maintain a schedule of regular public meetings with communities and leaders

Break the Cycle of Trauma

  • Provide extensive support structures for traumatized children, instead of sending them to adult prisons

  • Seek sentences that include necessary mental health and addiction treatments to reduce recidivism

  • Increase supports available during pretrial detention and upon release

  • Promote and encourage rehabilitation and expungement services and work with state government to increase reentry supports

  • Offer options and opportunities for restorative justice

  • Make bond requests on public safety, rather than leaning on cash bail

  • Expand diversion opportunities and evidence-based specialized dockets

  • Save taxpayer money by ensuring the new county jail isn’t larger than needed

  • Solicit and respond to the feedback of those who work in the jail as well as those who are housed in the jail

  • Support childhood programming that is proven to reduce crime rates

Support Rehabilitation through Services