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MADISON, Wis. In the year since George Floyd’s death, people across the country have called for changes to police practices and more oversight of police departments.
Madison is no different, with a number of changes coming to the city’s police department and past actions under review. Here is a look at what’s changed in Madison since May 25, 2020.
Proposals introduced to ban use of tear gas and projectile crowd-control measures
As peaceful protests gave way to unrest in downtown Madison in the days following Floyd’s death last summer, authorities were seen on video using tear gas and other projectiles in an attempt to disperse crowds, often leading to people throwing the canisters back in the direction of police. Authorities did acknowledge using chemical agents on the crowds in the early days of protests and unrest, but did hold off while largely standing back and observing protests later in the summer.
By Sarah Viren
May 25, 2021
… J. Kehaulani Kauanui had just woken up. She was reading a story on her phone in bed, a confession written by a woman named Jessica Krug, when, quite suddenly, it yanked her into the past.
“To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City,” wrote Krug, a history professor who had for years identified and published as a Black and Latina scholar. “I have thought about ending these lies many times over many years,” she continued, “but my cowardice was always more powerful than my ethics.”
Leah Dempsey
ACA International
Washington, DC
Leah Dempsey has a career marked by success as an advocate for the financial services industry, committed to advancing their priorities at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Communications Commission, other federal agencies, and on Capitol Hill. Dempsey was recognized by The Hill as a Top Lobbyist in 2020 noting that, “The ranks of policy experts and influencers run deep in Washington, but these are the people who stand out for delivering results for their clients in the halls of Congress and in the administration.”
In her role as Vice President and Senior Counsel for Federal advocacy at ACA International, Dempsey leads efforts to develop and implement ACA’s federal advocacy agenda in Washington, DC. She writes and speaks frequently about the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Unfair Deceptive Abusive Acts and Practices, and federal rules and legislation impacting the ac