Channabel Latham-Morris is a founding member of Families for Safe Streets Greater Philadelphia. In 2016, after her son Jamal was killed by a hit and run driver while he was riding his bicycle home, she worked with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia to seek passage of a law to renew the state’s automated red light camera program, which was set to expire. That program has reduced red-light running and the program’s fines have funded low cost traffic safety improvements throughout Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Families for Safe Streets Greater Philadelphia has gone on to successfully advocate for a state law to allow automated speed enforcement on the state’s deadliest roadways, Roosevelt Boulevard, and for the procurement of crucial investigative equipment for the Police Department to help bring justice for the victims of traffic violence.
