AVENPORT — Eight Quad Cities area professionals in the field of social justice will participate in a panel discussion on the influence of racial bias in policing practices and judicial outcomes from 6:30-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 11, at St. Ambrose University.
Betty C. Andrews, president of the Iowa-Nebraska National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will moderate the discussion.
The program is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the Davenport Progressive Action for the Common Good organization and the St. Ambrose University Diversity Office.
Davenport Police Chief Paul Sikorski and Scott County Attorney Mike Walton will be joined on the panel by Grant Tietjen, PhD, a St. Ambrose assistant professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice; Waylyn McCulloh, director of the Iowa Department of Corrections 7th district and an assistant professor of Criminal Justice at St. Ambrose; Scott Hobart, chief officer of the 7th district Juvenile Court; Dave Triston, 7th district Juvenile Court officer; Phil Ramirez, Scott County public defender; and Jeff Wallace, PhD, a social services expert with a doctorate in public policy, criminal justice and justice administration.
