Innocence Network Annual Conference

The Innocence Network Conference brings together directly impacted people, advocates, and others who work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful conviction, and provide post-release support. This annual conference promotes learning and growth through educational programming, relationship-building, collective action, and healing.

The conference will feature sessions within the following focus areas:

• Case Intake, Evaluation, & Investigation
• Forensic Science & Social Science
• Post-Conviction Litigation 
• Post-Release/Reentry Support, Social Work, Trauma-Informed Practice
• Community Outreach, Engagement, & Organizing
• Organizational Development 
• Race and Wrongful Conviction
• Emerging Areas 

Some sessions include: 

• Getting Your Record Straight: Dealing with Collateral Consequences of Wrongful Conviction 
• Reflecting on the Purpose of Art in Processing Trauma
• Financial Knowledge and Skills for All Freed & Exonerated People
• Off the Benches and Into the Trenches: Getting Into Court, Even if Creatively, To Move Cases Forward 
• Today’s Technology, Tomorrow's Exonerations: How New Technology Can Entrench and Amplify Racial Bias in Policing 
• Field Drug Tests: Coerced Pleas, Wrongful Convictions, and Racial Injustice