Senator Brownsberger has signed on as a co-sponsor to three bills to expand access to reproductive health care. Here is a constituent e-mail that articulates the need for these three important pieces of legislation.
Justice
animal welfare, civil law and procedure, criminal law, disability, drug policy, family law, freedom of speech, guardianship, gun violence, housing law, immigration, indigenous agenda, lgbtq rights, policing, privacy, sexual child abuse, terrorism, women's rights
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.
Unisex bathrooms-Safety for children
Please support HD 545. We should not allow young teenage boys, who simply believe they are girls, to use the girls room, play and compete on girls sports teams-as girls-and to use the girls locker room.It is not fair and it is not safe.
The New Jim Crow
As Senate Chair of the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee, it is my top personal priority to lighten the footprint of the criminal justice system on communities of color. Even in Massachusetts, where I believe that most police leaders take an enlightened approach to community policing — certainly, our own police chief and District Attorney Ryan do — the New Jim Crow is a real problem.
Cosponsor the revised Mass. Trust Act
I’m calling to urge Will to co-sponsor the Mass. Trust Act, which I believe will be voted on tomorrow/Friday, Jan. 23. I’m a resident of Watertown, on the Steering Committee of Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment.
Sex Offender Recidivism Commission
In 2013, the legislature created a commission to study “the most reliable protocols for assessing and managing the risk of recidivism of sex offenders.” Our goal is to make recommendations that will better protect the public from dangerous people, while being fair to offenders who pose little risk. The subject is difficult and emotional and we are trying to proceed in a step-by-step way to gather a full understanding of the subject before we reach any conclusions about public policy.