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Contact: legal@occupyatlanta.org
Legal Meeting Minutes: http://goo.gl/D0VZ1
Home Page: http://legal.occupyAtlanta.org
Jail Support Form: http://goo.gl/dp0X7

Jail support, coordinating legal defense for people arrested during Occupy activities, legal research, anticipating possible legal snags, administration of legal defense fund and any donations given or budgeted for that purpose, liaising with legal community.

Legal Committee Meeting Minutes – January 8, 2012

1)      Trip/Megan attended for discussion of actions

2)      Liliana, Oliver, Shayna, Kareem (Lauren’s boyfriend), Lauren, Daniel H., Juliana, Lisa, Esme, Brandon

3)      Bottom liners

  1. Who – Brandon, Shayna, Lauren (jail support only) are interested

i.      Friendly amendment – Oliver also a jail support bottom liner

ii.      Brandon also interested in helping out with jail support

iii.      Consensus on these four people, Brandon/Shayna general legal BL; Lauren/Oliver jail support BL

2. Role/responsibility

i.      General legal –  admin, organization, communication

ii.      Jail support –  communicating what is needed for an action

iii.      Finances

  1. Juliana and Shayna have the WePay account info
  2. Cash funds are in the jail support folder; only legal committee folks should have the folder

4)      Who/what do we support

  1. Previously adopted approach: “Limit legal and jail support to events/activities organized by Occupy Atlanta or a committee.”

i.      Concern that the way this is currently phrased, Copper and the bikers would not be covered.

ii.      Consensus that needs to be changed

2. Concerns/thoughts (brief summary)

i.      Language we not adopt overly broad or overly narrow language.

ii.      Several people mentioned that so far legal has done a good job making decisions on what to offer support on and what not to.

3. Language for a new proposal was discussed but not adopted. Consensus to continue discussions on the listserve and discuss further at the next meeting.

5) Upcoming actions

1. Lauren will handle jail support for January 9th

2. Discussed February 12th action (notes redacted from website at request of Action Committee)

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