In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, mass movements across the U.S. have demanded reform and change to address systemic racism. As state and local leaders look to meet these demands, we seek to understand more fully the variety of policy levers, tools, and agenda items that are salient to this moment. We are working in a collective of Southern organizations that seek to spread good ideas across the region.

We need a scan of policy and legal actions being proposed or enacted in state and local governments that are anti-racist in origin. For example, Los Angeles County government proposed an Anti-Racist Policy Agenda to guide their actions. We seek to identify similar efforts across the U.S. The scan would produce a memo providing a menu of options for state and local leaders seeking to propose an anti-racist agenda in their community or state.