NO to HB 1020!

Hinds County is Mississippi's most populous county and home to Jackson, its capital city, which is also the state's biggest city. Hinds County and Jackson are majority-Black, and Hinds County's duly elected judges and prosecutor are majority-Black Americans. HB 1020 would require that over 18% of Jackson's normal allocation of sales tax revenue be given to the Capitol Complex Improvement District ("CCID"). HB 1020 would enlarge the CCID area and thrust it deep into purely residential Northwest and Northeast areas of Jackson miles from downtown where the Capitol Police, who have shot or killed multiple Black people recently, have no right or reason to be. HB 1020 would empower a slate of all white Mississippi officials to appoint unelected judges and unelected prosecutors in majority-Black Hinds County. The Sheriff duties of the new CCID judicial system would be carried out by the unelected Chief of the Capitol Police district. This racist and undemocratic bill cannot pass!