Criminal Justice

Sponsoring and promoting legislation focused on improving and reforming our entire criminal justice system to address the disparities that exist from interaction with police to the judicial process by:

 

  • Supporting legislation for bail reform.
  • Promoting legislation to ban the box.
  • Supporting legislation to end racial profiling by law enforcement officials.
  • Supporting legislation to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 17 to 18.
  • Supporting legislation to reduce the criminal penalties to Class C Misdemeanor for small amount of marijuana.
  • Supporting legislation to reimplement the Project RIO.