Decriminalize Developmental Disabilities
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
-Socrates
Welcome to the Decriminalize Developmental Disabilities website
We advocate for reforming the criminal justice system to better address the needs of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities like Autism. The current system often fails to understand and accommodate their unique challenges, leading to harmful prosecutions without public benefit.
Our goal is to make changes that will save these individuals from the unnecessary cruelty the criminal justice system is putting them through. Implementing this goal will require educating legislators, prosecutors and judges about this population and their need to be understood and provided education, rather than prosecuted, by the legal system.
We are a non-profit 501(c)3 parent advocacy organization, nonpolitical and nonsectarian.
