BEHEARDDC

HEARD is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that focuses on correcting and preventing deaf wrongful convictions, ending deaf prisoner abuse, and on increasing representation of the deaf in the justice and legal professions.

HEARD's mission is to identify and remove barriers that prevent the deaf from participating in and having equal access to the justice system by enhancing the competence, capacity, and capability of justice professionals to manage language access and ability rights issues; and empowering the Deaf Community through education and advocacy.

HEARD's vision is to create a universally accessible American justice system that equitably serves the people with hearing loss. 

HEARD facilitates collaboration among deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing individuals because HEARD views access to the justice system as a fundamental human right that we all should be working to make a reality.