Today the Senate will take up a Chapter 90 authorization bill. Chapter 90 funds are the primary source of funding that the Commonwealth provides to cities and towns for road maintenance and repair. Last year the state authorized $200 million of Chapter 90 funding. Chapter 90 funds are appropriated to all cities and towns determined …
Yearly Archives: 2018
In Germany, It’s Hard to Find a Young Adult in Prison
A report on Germany’s juvenile justice system, which Senator Brownsberger toured alongside the author, Vincent Schiraldi of Columbia University, during a trip the institution’s Justice Lab organized for Massachusetts government officials in March 2018, via the Crime Report
Opinion: Criminal Justice Reform Lightens Up On The Little Guy
Senator Brownsberger shares an op-ed in The Belmontonian about the criminal justice reform package recently passed by the state legislature.
Criminal justice reform bill sent to governor
The Governor has 10 days to consider the bill once it reaches his desk. State House News Service report via Easton Wicked Local.
Town Hall for Our Lives continues gun reform debate in Roxbury
On April 7, Senator Brownsberger participated in a student-led Town Hall on gun reform, as detailed by The Daily Free Press.
AG Healey’s assault weapon interpretation (please overturn).
I’ve received hundreds of emails like the following from folks — mostly from outside the district that I represent, from all over the state and outside the state. As a law-abiding Second Amendment supporter in Massachusetts, I urge you to please support both Senate Bill 1316 and Senate Bill 1326. Both S.1316 and S.1326 seek to …
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