Jonathan Kamens urges that Massachusetts take a leadership role in restricting the ability of colleges and universities to adjudicate cases of alleged sexual assault internally rather than through local law enforcement.
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
Decedent’s Electronic Assets
Jim Berets asks about proposals at the state level to address the ownership of electronic assets of deceased residents.
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.
Sentencing Juveniles for Murder
The Senate has acted on Senate 2246, which is intended to respond to the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in the Diatchenko case.
The Supreme Court’s Buffer Zone Ruling
Victoria Wu asks about specific commitments from Will, on issues of women’s privacy seeking health care, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on abortion and contraception.
Women Lead in Child Sexual Abuse Statute Of Limitations Reform
Will writes: Last Thursday, something historic happened: The Governor signed into law a bill giving survivors of sexual child abuse much more time to bring law suits against their abusers. I hope that the message of support we sent last week will help adult survivors of child abuse, both men and women, to shed remaining pain, shame and confusion about searing events in the distant past that were beyond their adult control. I also hope that the extended statute of limitations will help to protect children in the future from abuse.