Recovery Rally in Louisville Today

Our friends at Addiction-Recovery Advocates of Kentuckiana and People Advocating Recovery had a big event in Louisville today on the riverfront celebrating recovery from addiction and substance abuse.  

As civic participation is a big part of recovery and many people with an addiction in their background have been convicted of a felony, they invited KFTC to talk to people about our campaign to restore voting rights for former felons who have served their debt to society.

We helped dozens people start the process to request a partial pardon from the Governor to get their rights back and an incredible three-hundred people filled out postcards to legislators encouraging them to restore voting rights for former felons automatically when they've served their time.  Others took action by sitting down to write a personal letter to legislators, joining KFTC, or pledging to take part in our call-in week starting on Tuesday.

Tayna Fogle, a KFTC former felon spokesperson was one of the event's speakers and did a great job of talking about the issue and bringing hundreds of people over to our table to learn more.

Many thanks to our friends at the Kentucky ACLU who came out to help us talk to people and collect postcards.

There are other recovery rallies happening across the state this month, many of which KFTC will be participating in.