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Medicaid expansion, constitutional amendments, law enforcement barracks project on agenda this week in legislature A proposal for the stateâs new Medicaid expansion program and a $4.6 million proposal to build barracks at the Law Enforcement Training Academy at BRTC will be among several items on the agenda this week as lawmakers head back to the capital. (Source: ABC/NBC) By Region 8 Newsdesk | March 7, 2021 at 1:40 PM CST - Updated March 7 at 10:48 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - A proposal for the stateâs new Medicaid expansion program and a $4.6 million proposal to build barracks at the Law Enforcement Training Academy at BRTC will be among several items on the agenda this week as lawmakers head back to the capital.
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SC lawmakers introduce laws prompted by summer of protests Several gathered in Columbia during the summer of 2020 to call for police reform following the death of George Floyd. (Source: WIS) By Adam Mintzer | February 8, 2021 at 8:55 PM EST - Updated February 8 at 10:14 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - After a summer of protests, some activists who started groups to demand criminal justice reform are wondering what happened to the legislative momentum they worked to create.
Rye Martinez started Empower SC after the
death of George Floyd to turn the energy from the protests into policy. She has now made leading the group her full-time job.
General Assembly
NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana House members Tuesday unanimously embraced a police reform bill brought following summer protests on racial injustice.
The chamber gave the bill s author, Rep. Greg Steuerwald R-Avon, a standing ovation while he stood to the side with tears in his eyes.
“This summer you all came together,” House Speaker Todd Huston said. “This is the way the body is supposed to work.”
House Bill 1006 now moves to the Senate.
It does the following:
• Defines and bans chokeholds in all but deadly force situations;
• Makes it a misdemeanor for a police officer to turn off a body camera to conceal a criminal act;