12-06-2025
Just Law mentors Rochester students on justice and law system
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Twelve students were selected as the winners of the 2024-2025 JUST LAW essay contest.
The Justice, Understanding, Societal, Trust, and Literacy, Attendance and Writing program (JUST LAW) teaches Rochester students from sixth to ninth grade about the US legal system. Students were asked to write a 250-word essay on the topic 'What Justice Means to Me.'
Winners had the opportunity to be mentored by members of the Rochester Black Bar Association and court leaders.
'Just to hear about what experiences children have had with law enforcement, with the court systems, I have learned so much,' Monroe County Judge Fatimat Reid said. 'Even as young as 6th graders they are such deep thinkers, they have such opinions about what they believe the court system is like, how they see the future of the court system, so I really see a bright future in these young kids as to what future and true justice means to them.'
Selected from over 150 essay submissions, these students also won opportunities for mentorship with court leaders and members of the Rochester Black Bar Association.
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