This webinar features a discussion on recent research on the overrepresentation of Black and sexual minority men in civil commitment programs and provides a brief history of civil commitment and the legal challenges to it.

Panelists
+ Ilan H. Meyer, Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy, The Williams Institute
+ Trevor Hoppe, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro
+ Nkechi Taifa, Founding Principal and CDO, The Taifa Group, LLC
+ Eric S. Janus, Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
+ Tyrone Hanley, Senior Policy Counsel, National Center for Lesbian Rights