Short title; purposes

(a) Short title This Act may be cited as the People’s Response Act. (b) Purpose It is the purpose of this Act to— (1) catalyze, coordinate, and disseminate research on approaches to community safety that reduce criminal legal contact while expanding opportunity, including a particular focus on groups that have been disproportionately harmed by the criminal legal system; (2) support State governments, local governments, and community-based organizations in implementing qualified approaches to community safety; (3) mobilize and coordinate Federal resources to advance qualified approaches to community safety; (4) expand resources to holistically support survivors of mass incarceration, police violence, rape and other forms of sexual assault, harm resulting from detention or deportation, and other forms of violence and abuse; and (5) expand resources to holistically support marginalized communities, including Black communities, Latine/x communities, Indigenous communities, communities of color, poor and working class communities, and LGBTQIA+ communities, to implement qualified approaches to community safety, with an emphasis on culturally and linguistically appropriate approaches.