Animal protection is an important issue for Senator Brownsberger and for the 2015-2016 legislative session he has signed on as a co-sponsor to the 11 bills listed in this post.
Author Archives: Barbara Miranda
Civil liberties legislation
Senator Brownsberger is co-sponsoring the Electronic Privacy Act and Representative Rushing’s racial profiling data collection bill. Several constituents have asked him to sponsor civil liberties and privacy legislation. Here is a constituent e-mail about these privacy and civil liberties issues.
Letter in support of Belmont’s MassWorks application
Senator Brownsberger and Representative Rogers jointly sent this letter in support of Belmont’s application for a MassWorks grant for the Belmont Center Streetscape Improvements Project:
Undocumented immigrant children in Massachusetts
This news story from WickedLocal Bedford reveals what is accurate and what is inaccurate about reports of planeloads of undocumented children landing at Hanscom Air Force Base.
FCC/State rules about telemarketing calls
Our office has had some questions from residents who have been annoyed by the volume of calls they receive from autodialers. The FCC has specific rules for automatic telephone dialing systems. These rules apply whether or not you have registered your home phone number(s) on the national Do-Not-Call list. The links below were provided by …
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New law requiring fingerprinting of school and camp staff
A new law (Chapter 77 of the Acts of 2013) requires the fingerprinting of all staff at both public and private schools who are in contact with students. The procedure is that a person goes to an FBI-approved vendor who takes the fingerprints. They are then sent to the FBI which checks for matches with …
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