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On Friday, May 5, the 202nd commencement ceremony of Savannah State University (SSU) was held at T. A. Wright Stadium located on the university’s campus. The ceremony was live-streamed. Over 350 students received master’s, bachelor’s, and associate degrees. Georgia State Senator, Sonya M. Halpern provided the commencement address. Senator Halpern was elected in 2020
Here for us to find solutions. empowering communities to be a part of fixing their crime problems is a great place to start. it allows democrats and republicans equally to participate in trying to fix this. i think the unique part of this is it can be spent five ways, hiring more officers, paying them more, training them better, equipping them better or integrating a co-responder model for mental health and behavior to co-respond with officers. at the end of the day there's a lot of solutions out there that if we eliminate the partisanship we can get real solutions across the finish line. not ...
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Solution. >> now, this is exciting. senator halpern, just two years ago it seems americans were divided over the issue of policing. here georgia is leading the way. there are a lot of mayors trying to figure out how they can make their towns and cities safer. there are a lot of state legislators debating back and forth, coming from two different sides. i guess my question is how did georgia come together with the bipartisan bill? >> well, i think that, you know, again, crime is definitely not something that is partisan. so where we've been seeing increases in crime in cities throughout and tow...
Georgia's lieutenant governor writes in "newsweek" the law allows people to make contributions to departments of their choice, to refund the police in need of more equipment training. lieutenant governor duncan joins us now along with democratic state senator sonia halpern who represents georgia's 39th district including parts of atlanta. she now fully supports the new legislation. so, geoff duncan, i will start with you and ask you about about all right. e.s.s.. >> with regards to the less crime act we have not seen any push back in our state, in support of the effort. crime is a bipartisan p...