ASAN Statement on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
On June 25, 2022, President Biden signed legislation intended to address gun violence. ASAN recognizes gun violence as a cause of needless and horrific suffering…
June 29, 2022
criminal legal system
Advocates Applaud Full Pardon of Neli Latson, a Young Black Man with Disabilities, After Decade of Injustice
After more than a decade of unjust prosecution and abuse in the criminal justice system, Neli Latson, a Black man with multiple disabilities, is finally…
June 22, 2021
ASAN Urges Congress to Pass the Keeping All Students Safe Act
ASAN commends Congress for its reintroduction of the Keeping All Students Safe Act (KASSA). KASSA would ban almost all kinds of restraint and all kinds…
May 25, 2021
ASAN Statement on the Conviction of Derek Chauvin
Last year, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck for nine and a half minutes….
April 20, 2021
ASAN Applauds the Pardon of Matthew Rushin
November 10th, 2020 The Autistic Self Advocacy Network welcomes the Governor Northam’s decision to conditionally pardon Mr. Matthew Rushin, an autistic Black man who was…
November 10, 2020
ASAN & AWN Call for Relief for Matthew Rushin
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network have filed a joint statement of concern with the Governor of Virginia regarding…
July 9, 2020
Coalition Demands a Full Pardon for Neli Latson
View this statement as a PDF here. WASHINGTON – Neli Latson should be a free man. Instead, he’s faced a decade of unjust prosecution and…
July 7, 2020
Action Alert: Disability Policy Call-ins on COVID Relief and Police Violence
Thirty years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we are still struggling to build a world in which all people with disabilities…
July 6, 2020
ASAN Supports Justice in Policing Act
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) applauds the House of Representatives’ passage of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, H.R. 7120, as a first…
June 26, 2020
Working to End Police Violence and Systemic Racism
A month ago, we shared an update on how ASAN is working to keep our community safe through the COVID-19 pandemic. This month, we want…
June 4, 2020
Statement on the Institutionalization of Arnaldo Rios-Soto
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) strongly condemns the institutionalization of Arnaldo Rios-Soto, an Autistic Latino young man, in Carlton Palms – a facility with…
August 26, 2016
ASAN Statement on Shooting of Charles Kinsey
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network strongly condemns the police shooting of Charles Kinsey, an unarmed Black support worker to an autistic man in Miami. Those…
July 22, 2016