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I. JUDICAL EDUCATION
Efforts should be made to ensure that all judicial employees,
including judges, receive cross-cultural training to educate them
on the impact of racial and ethnic bias on the legitimacy of the judicial
systems. This training should be thorough, mandatory and conducted
at regular intervals to make certain to all employees that racial
and ethnic bias will not be tolerated in any way.
ACTION STEPS
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Courts and bar associations should utilize the model compendiums
of effective court and judicial education programs developed by
the National Center for State Courts and involve that group in
these efforts.
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Encourage the National Judicial College in Reno, NV to not only
include separate fairness courses for the judiciary, but also
to include, as appropriate, a fairness component in all substantive
courses.
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Courts and bar associations
must work to ensure that every state has a racial and ethnic bias
in the courts task force or commission. Bar associations should
work with groups like the Conference of Chief Justices, American
Judges Association and the ABA Judicial Division to get buy-in for
these programs to be institutionalized in the life of the court.
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