Commentary: Arresting young children is cruel, damaging and ineffective
Jane E. Tewksbury
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New York made national news when body camera footage captured police in Rochester handcuffing and pepper-spraying a 9-year-old girl in January. Last month, the state made headlines again when a 7-year-old boy was arrested in St. Lawrence County.
Many were shocked: Do we really treat elementary school children this way in the U.S.?
Yes we do, but we don’t have to.
In Massachusetts, where I was formerly the commissioner of the commonwealth’s youth justice agency, we raised the minimum age for arrest from 7 to 12 years old in 2018, based on what we know is best for young children and community safety. Now, New York is considering a similar bill that, besides raising the minimum age of arrest to 12, also creates pathways to link children and families with services available through local child welfare and social services. The Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice, a n
CHULA VISTA (KUSI) – Thomas More Society and South Bay United Pentecostal Church have achieved what is now a complete victory at the United States Supreme Court with an April 26, 2021, order vacating the Ninth Circuit’s prior judgment in the case.
The San Diego area church and its pastor, Rev. Arthur E. Hodges II, sued California Governor Gavin Newsom for COVID prompted discrimination that denied them the right to hold indoor worship services. The governor’s executive orders also put limits on the number of people that could gather for worship and prohibited singing during services.
Thomas More Society Special Counsel Paul Jonna, partner at LiMandri & Jonna LLP, called the high court order the “final nail in the coffin” burying Newsom’s unconstitutional chokehold on California churches.
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A lawsuit challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act received a split decision in federal appeals court on April 6, 2021. The law, the lawsuit and the split resulted in a 300-plus-page decision that confounded experts and lay people alike. The decision won’t impact Alaska directly. But legal experts say Alaska should still keep an eye on the case.
The Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA, basically provides Tribes with an opportunity to intervene when state child welfare and adoption agencies consider whether or not to remove a Native child from a home. The children can be enrolled citizens of the Tribe or be eligible for membership status.
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Executive Summary: For decades fitness
facilities have been offering women-only sections,
allowing women to exercise in private without self-image worries or
unwanted male attention. But these sections are now in jeopardy as
the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities
(CHRO) brings a case against two prominent Connecticut gyms, Edge
Fitness and Club Fitness, to the Connecticut Supreme Court,
asserting that such sections amount to illegal sex discrimination
against men. This is an issue of first impression.
The CHRO has been pleading this case, originally brought to them
Members of the Sisterhood of Saint Mary, a group of Anglican nuns, are among several religious organizations asking the United States Supreme Court to hear their challenge against a New York state mandate requiring employers to cover abortion in their employees healthcare plans. | Becket
A group of nuns and other religious organizations in New York are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case against a 2017 state mandate requiring employers to cover abortions in their employee healthcare plans.Â
Led by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, a coalition of religious organizations filed an appeal Friday asking the nationâs high court to hear the case of