Please join us on September 12th, 2018. Phyllida Burlingame and Rebecca Gudeman of the ACLU of Northern California Location will be giving a talk titled A Broad Brush: How a Proposed Marriage Ban in California Intersects with Existing Protections for Minors.
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 12, 2:00-3:00 pm
Location: Berkeley Way - Room 5400
Please RSVP to i4Y@berkeley.edu
Legislation to ban marriages by minors is being introduced in states across the country. While the legal infrastructure in those states regarding rights and protections for minors varies widely, the bills are uniform in their approach. This talk focuses on SB 273, a California bill introduced in 2017 which would have initially banned all minor marriage and was then modified to permit marriage but increase court oversight. Speakers from the ACLU of California and National Center for Youth Law will talk about the existing California legal and policy context for minors, why their organizations opposed the original version of the bill, and the changes to the bill made by the author with their input. A primary goal of the presentation will be a discussion of how best to protect minors from coerced relationships.
Phyllida Burlingame is the Reproductive Justice and Gender Equity Director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. She leads the ACLU’s California integrated advocacy to policy and advocacy work on a variety of issues including young people’s confidential access to reproductive health care, quality sexual health education in schools, and equal educational opportunities for expectant and parenting students.
Rebecca Gudeman is the Senior Director of the Health Team at the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL). NCYL uses a variety of strategies – including research, policy advocacy, and litigation – to ensure the systems intended to support marginalized children do so effectively. Among their current adolescent health efforts are work to ensure youth in foster care have equitable access to confidential sexual and reproductive health care, efforts to support and build school-based health systems, and work to ensure appropriate information sharing across the agencies that serve youth while still protecting their confidentiality.