In 1997, Dina Levy was arrested in Dallas and held in jail for about 14 hours.  She was knocking on doors as a tenant organizer with an AmeriCorps program when the police were called.  Levy admits her extended stay in a cell may have been due to her behavior: She teased the police officer who took her in, she said.  The experience had a long reach in her professional and personal life, prompting a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rule protecting tenants’ right to organize, Levy says, and leading to her meeting her husband.  She also stuck to […]

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