Formerly known as the Audit Ahern Coalition, Decarcerate Alameda County is a growing coalition of organizations and community members joining together to demand that Alameda County free people from Santa Rita Jail, divest from incarceration & policing, and invest in community health, not cops. 

Visit our Platform page to learn more about our political framework and focus.
Visit our Calendar page for regular meeting info and actions.

​To get in touch, please find instructions on the Contact tab of this website.

Participating Organizations

We are broad coalition of grassroots community and social justice organizations that have united to get people free from Santa Rita Jail and reinvest taxpayer dollars into life-affirming resources.  Below are the organizations involved:

Steering Committee:

• 67 Sueños
• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
• Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP)
• Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ)
• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Hayward Community Coalition (HayCoCo)
• Human Impact Partners (HIP)
• Justice Reinvestment Coalition of Alameda County
• Moms 4 Housing
• Restore Oakland (RO)

Member Organizations:

• Alameda County Families Advocating for the Seriously Mentally Ill
• ACLU of Northern California
• California Sanctuary Campaign
• Causa Justa / Just Cause
• ​East Bay Community Law Center
• East Bay Supportive Housing Collaborative
• First Unitarian Church of Oakland
• Healers for Abolition
• Indivisible East Bay
• Justice Teams Network
• Psychologists for Social Responsibility
• Public Health Justice Collective
• Siegel, Yee, Brunner & Mehta
• Southern Alameda County Resistance Network
• Sunrise Movement Bay Area
• SURJ Bay Area
• Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club

If you are representing an organization who would like to join the Coalition, please fill out this form.