Conn Senate to Vote on Removing Religious Exemptions for Child Vaccinations nbcconnecticut.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcconnecticut.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After at least three years of controversy and public protests, the state House of Representatives voted on a bill that will remove the use of the religious exemption to childhood vaccinations for children if they wish to enroll in school. The bill passed 90-53 after 16 hours of debate following a significant concession to families already holding exemptions from vaccinating… Connecticut Nov 30, 2019
Connecticut lawmakers OK ice cream truck safety bill spurred by Wallingford boy s death courant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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People line up to purchase ice cream from a truck in New York. The Connecticut Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would require ice cream trucks to install safety features to protect their customers. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)
WALLINGFORD, CT The Connecticut State Senate on Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of a bill that aims to require ice cream trucks to install flashing lights, caution signs, signal arms and mirrors in an effort to keep children safer, the Hartford Courant reports.
The bill was proposed following the death of Tristan Barhorst, a 10-year-old Wallingford boy killed by a passing car after buying ice cream from a truck in his neighborhood.
SB 1018: Connecticut’s effort to increase prosecutorial accountability and why it will not work
Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division, CT OPM
Prosecutors hold people’s lives in their hands. Their decisions shape not only the futures of defendants, prisoners, and formerly incarcerated people, but also the overall extent of mass incarceration. Currently, the United States is the international leader for incarceration with almost 2.3 million people behind bars. Connecticut’s incarceration rates are no exception: before the COVID19 pandemic, about 60,000 Connecticut residents were locked up, under probation, or on parole. Roughly 16,000 of those people were incarcerated.
But the solution to mass incarceration is not simple; structural barriers exist which prevent the current legal procedures from holding prosecutors accountable. Connecticut’s Senate Bill 1018 is intended to address prosecutorial power and break down barriers to ending mass incarceration but does it?