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North Carolina Bill Would Force School Staffers to Out Trans Kids
The proposed legislation would ban gender-affirming health care for people up to age 21 and require school staffers to out trans kids to their families. April 07 2021 1:58 PM EDT
Three Republican legislators in North Carolina have introduced perhaps the most repressive anti-transgender health care bill in the nation.
Senate Bill 514, titled the Youth Health Protection Act, would ban gender-affirming treatment, including surgery, hormones, and puberty blockers, for anyone up to age 21, whereas other bills of this nature would ban it up to age 18. It was introduced Monday by Sens. Ralph Hise, Warren Daniel, and Norman Sanderson.
NC lawmakers push for rioters to face felony charges. So what is considered a riot? Danielle Battaglia, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Mar. 16 RALEIGH Participating in a riot in any form in North Carolina could soon leave you susceptible to felony charges.
On Monday, Sen. Danny Britt, a Lumberton Republican, filed Senate Bill 300, labeled the Criminal Justice Reform bill. The 12-page bill includes a provision that would increase the punishment for anyone participating in a riot from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class H felony. We want folks to know that it is our opinion that these crimes are serious, Britt told The News & Observer on Tuesday. We hope that this will convey to them the need to actually prosecute crimes at a serious level.
BRYAN ANDERSON, Associated Press/Report for America
RALEIGH North Carolina civil right rights groups struck a deal Thursday with Gov. Roy Cooper s administration to allow for the early release of 3,500 inmates in state custody over the next six months.
If a Wake County Superior Court judge approves the settlement agreement and the state abides by its commitment to trim about one-eighth of its more than 28,000-person prison population, the North Carolina branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People would dismiss its lawsuit alleging prison conditions during the coronavirus pandemic have violated inmates rights under the state constitution.
Cooper, North Carolina Prison Officials Agree To Release 3,500 Inmates
North Carolina civil rights groups struck a deal on Thursday with Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration to allow for the early release of 3,500 inmates in state custody over the next six months.
If the state abides by its commitment to trim about one-eighth of its more than 28,000-person prison population, the North Carolina branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People would dismiss its lawsuit alleging prison conditions during the coronavirus pandemic have violated inmates’ rights under the state constitution.
A Wake County Superior Court judge granted a stay on Thursday that will allow the parties to go forward with the terms of the settlement they had negotiated.