Here's the lesson Judge Eisgruber just taught Mandy Boardman: "Women, don’t get snippy out there; you might get drugged and raped.”

This petition is about protecting the poor and innocent from Debt Collectors who use the court system to jail people who can't afford to pay the dept. I have never been arrested in my life. A local Debt Collection company has been trying to sue me since 2011 and they just recently asked the court to issue a body attachment on me. I am an emotional wreck because a cop can come to my door anytime to haul me off to jail and I have done NOTHING illegal! I am very afraid of going to jail.

Many of our North Carolina Brothers and Sisters and their families have been impacted by the injustice of North Carolina Expungement Rules/Laws. People are being held back from moving forward in their lives and becoming productive citizens because of the residual affect of past criminal infractions, largely promoted by our governing body and those who represent the citizens of North Carolina.

Karla Brada Mendez was one of these women. She met Eric Allen Earle in AA. Karla was there to seek help with alcohol and drug overuse; Earle was court-ordered to attend AA for the fourth time. He had already spent two years in prison and had six restraining orders against him. Court records clearly documented his relapses with alcohol and violent behavior towards those closest to him. According to his friends, Earle, age 40, trolled meetings for emotionally vulnerable women who would take him in. He had a string of girlfriends that he all met in AA, and Karla, age 31, would soon become one of them. After enduring months of escalating domestic violence, Karla was found strangled in her apartment in 2011. Earle now faces charges for her murder. Karla’s story is not the only one. AA has built a reputation among predators as a place to find victims. Sexual predators learn how to rise up the ranks of AA and use their power to target women with less than one year of sobriety, who they consider the most vulnerable. This phenomenon has become so common that members refer to it as ‘the 13th step.’ Meanwhile, the organization’s leadership has done little to implement safety measures at their meetings and judges continue sentencing violent offenders to meetings in droves. Every citizen and every AA member deserves the right to safe recovery. Please demand that the courts find somewhere else to send sex offenders and violent criminals. Lives depend on it. Sincerely, Monica Richardson, Safe Recovery Advocate & Director of The 13th Step Film Jaroslava Mendez, Safe Recovery Advocate & Karla's Mother

My son Zach's right to stand trial for his crime was unfairly stripped from him when his attorney requested a second psychiatric evaluation, I believe because his attorney did not want to go to trial since he accepted the case for a flat fee of $2500.00. The first psychiatric evaluation one month prior declared him competent to stand trial. Thus when the second opinion declared him incompetent he was sentenced to time and forced medication at a state mental hospital.

The Court's excessive new search fees burden public records access and fall disproportionately on the poor.

Gregory has done his time and he is ready to come home! He has got his GED and is working on college courses so he can have a steady job with stable finance when he comes home. He also goes to church every Sunday and has completed a bible study.

It is about the 2012 NDAA , signed by President Obama in the closing hours of 2011, as the nation partied. The law allows the President to use the military to detain indefinitely anyone he/she suspects of being a terrorist. It butchers the sixth Amendment, along with half of the Bill of Rights. It was appealed by a group of journalists , led by Chris Hedges, and was struck down by federal judge Katherine Forrest. The law was then reinstated on appeal, and the Supreme Court recently refused to hear it. We must NOT allow this dangerous law to remain on the books! Please sign and pass on this petition!

Because 65 million Americans with criminal records face unprecedented barriers to employment; because human potential is being squandered; because a 'get tough on crime' policy created a bogged-down criminal justice system; and because policies within the American legal system have denied far too many citizens their right to trial is why I'm starting this petition. And for the record- most countries don't hold misdemeanors against their citizens for life. Consider that, while you compete for jobs- against immigrants brought in to take the jobs that they won't give to you. Something to consider.

Everyone deserves a fair trial and everyone victim deserves justice.

This is a public safety issue. We need to be able to feel safe in our own community and not fear our police officers.

JUSTICE