Redditt Hudson

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Redditt Hudson is the Chairman of the Board of The Ethics Project and Regional Field Director of the NAACP. He has served as the Political Action Chair for the Executive Committee of the NAACP St. Louis City Branch and was the former Program Associate for the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM). He joined the ACLU-EM as a Racial Justice Associate in 2005. In that role he led the Racial Justice Initiative for two years before being named the ACLU-EM Racial Justice Manager. He is the author of the critical investigative report “Suffering in Silence”, which catalogued Human rights abuses in St. Louis City jails, and led to several formal actions to address the conditions in them.  is also a former St. Louis police officer. He left the force in 1999 to focus on addressing systemic problems in the criminal justice system, abused police authority, and improving the police/community relationship. Seeking to address all of the fractures in the police/community relationship, in 2000 he co-founded Project PEACE, an organization that addressed issues of individual and community responsibility and accountability. In addition to being a strong advocate for criminal justice reform, he also continues his advocacy and activism relative to issues including economic empowerment, health care, education, criminal justice reform, and voting rights. He sits on the U.S. Attorneys Hate Crimes Task Force in St. Louis and is a member of the National Coalition of Law Enforcement Officers for Justice.

Hudson is also a former St. Louis police officer who left the force in 1999 to focus on addressing systemic problems in the criminal justice system, abused police authority, and improving the police/community relationship. Seeking to address all of the fractures in the police/community relationship, in 2000 he co-founded Project PEACE, an organization that addressed issues of individual and community responsibility and accountability. In addition to being a strong advocate for criminal justice reform, he also continues his advocacy and activism relative to issues including economic empowerment, health care, education, criminal justice reform, and voting rights. He sits on the U.S. Attorneys Hate Crimes Task Force in St. Louis and is a member of the National Coalition of Law Enforcement Officers for Justice.