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Senate Bill 304 includes numerous strong provisions that increase accountability for police while decreasing their role, including provisions regarding school resource officers, secondary traffic violations...
Senate Bill 305 rolls back too many needed accountability provisions and re-expands opportunities for police searches not even two years after the police accountability bill was enacted. Accordingly, the...
Police and other criminal legal system actors are simply not the appropriate people to handle the public health needs of substance use disorders; they are not public health actors whose sole job is to...
Senate Bill 334 makes obtaining a commercial learner permit test easier for people as they prepare to return to their communities from incarceration. But this bill could be made stronger.
House Bill 5349 is a good initial step toward police accountability by requiring the timely reporting of a death to the next of kin by police officers—a measure that should have already been in place.
We cannot have full and equitable participation in society by women and other people who menstruate unless we ensure safe and affordable access to menstrual products to everyone who needs them.