Montana Racial Equity Project weighs in on body-worn cameras on law enforcement officers in Montana I would feel so much more assured if I had a police contact, or a sheriff s contact or a troopers contact and they had a body cam.
The Executive Director of the organization weighed in on what the possibility of body cams in Bozeman could mean for officers and for residents who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
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BOZEMAN â In part three of our coverage about body cams on law enforcement officers in Montana, MTN New caught up with The Montana Racial Equity Project to hear their stance on the emerging technology.
Bozeman PD discusses possibility of body cams in future
âI think this is just one of the components law enforcement is using to try and continue the communityâs increasing expectations. And rightly so.â
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BOZEMAN â In part two of a three-part series about body cams for law enforcement officers in Montana, MTN News spoke with the Bozeman Police Department, an agency that does not have body-worn cameras on police officers yet.
At the end of 2020, the Bozeman City Commission approved a Capital Improvements Program that lays out a blueprint of major funding projects for years to come.
Members of several activist groups spoke out against them. My choice was between taking a promising career and raising a child in poverty. Deciding to get an abortion was not an easy choice. I was going to be making $17,000 that year, working as a medical assistant, taking the hours needed to apply for nursing school, former patient Cambria McDermott said.Â
A spokesman from Western Native Voice also weighed in. One of the bills voted on today will make it harder for people in rural Montana and on reservations to have medications mailed to them, specifically abortion medication, Keaton Sunchild said.
As House Bill 112 moved through the Montana House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning, the chorus of voices against the legislation grew louder.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and dozens of Montana civil rights groups have joined in opposition to HB 112 and House Bill 113, both of which are pieces of anti-trans legislation.
The Judiciary Committee will vote on HB 113 on Friday morning.
The HRC is the largest LGBTQ+ organization in the country. A Montana coalition against anti-transgender legislation, called the Free and Fair Coalition, is comprised of the Montana Human Rights Network, Montana Women Vote, ACLU of Montana, Empower Montana, Forward Montana, the Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Montana Gender Alliance, the Montana Chapter of the National Social Workers Association, the Montana Racial Equity Project, the Indigenous Organizers Collective, Planned Parenthood of Montana, Pride Foundation, and Trans
They are a non-profit and non-partisan organization advocating for equity and justice for historically marginalized, disenfranchised, and oppressed people of Montana and beyond.