Noon meeting Thursday in Youngstown to discuss criminal justice reform campaign

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning Valley Organizing Cooperative will have a noon meeting Thursday at the Center for Community Empowerment, 1420 Dogwood Drive, to discuss organizing a criminal justice reform campaign.

Sharod Gordon, director of criminal justice and policy for Target Area Development Corp., an Illinois community-based organization that organized a similar campaign, will be the guest speaker. For more information, contact DaMareo Cooper at MVOC at (330) 319-0703 or dcooper@mvorganizing.org — his e-mail address. The MVOC is an organization that works with neighborhood groups to improve the quality of life in the Mahoning Valley.