The National Center on Restorative Justice’s Restorative Justice Laws Database was created as a resource for restorative justice advocates, practitioners, and researchers as well as policy-makers across the United States. Our aim is to organize and display in an easily navigated format the ways in which states have codified the use of restorative justice approaches.
Thank you to Shannon Sliva (University of Denver) and Thalia González (UC Law San Francisco) for their advisement and expertise throughout the process of creating this database. Thank you to Karen Sheu and Anna VanRoy for their data collection work.
This Restorative Justice Laws Database builds on an earlier legislative directory created in 2014 by Shannon Sliva in partnership with Carolyn Lambert (Georgia State University College of Law) and hosted by the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work from 2019 to 2024.
The laws included in this database were identified by conducting a search in Westlaw and LexisNexis using the terms visible under “Form of Practice” in the database search options below. Only laws that feature one or more of these terms are included in the database. Use of the terms in the text of the law does not necessarily mean that restorative justice practice is occurring in the given jurisdiction.
The NCORJ is committed to continuing to update this database. If you see something that is missing or a correction is required, please be in touch. For more information about the development of the database, to get assistance navigating it, or to request a copy of the raw data for research purposes, please contact Lindsey Pointer (lpointer@vermontlaw.edu).
Sixteen members appointed by the mayor, as follows: four members shall be teachers or principals employed by the department; two members shall be current students; five members shall be experts in the field of culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy, restorative…
A governing body shall develop restorative practices in accordance with the provisions of NRS 388.133 for both victims and perpetrators of discrimination based on race.
Within six months of the effective date of this act, the Commissioner of Education shall establish a three-year “Restorative Justice in Education Pilot Program” to implement restorative justice practices in the public schools. The program shall address school discipline issues…
There is established within the Department of Education a fund to be known as the “Restorative Justice Education Fund.” The fund shall be used to provide grants to participating schools pursuant to subsection c. of section 4 [C.18A:37-41] of this…
An Act concerning restorative justice in the public schools and supplementing chapter 37 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
One or more meetings between, at a minimum, a school attendance officer, a school social worker, or a school administrator or his or her designee, the person who has legal or actual charge or control of the child, and the…
The school shall provide a plan of action based on restorative justice to the parent or legal guardian of the pupil or, if the pupil is an unaccompanied pupil, the pupil.
For each school in the district, including, without limitation, each charter school sponsored by the district, information on: (1) The plan for progressive discipline used by the school and any disciplinary practices based on restorative justice used by the school;
The Department shall develop one or more examples of a progressive discipline plan based on restorative justice which must include, without limitation:
Existing law requires the Department to adopt regulations relating to restorative justice in disciplining pupils. Existing law also requires the Department to post on its Internet website certain guidance relating to the discipline of pupils, including, without limitation, restorative justice.…