by admin | Jan 4, 2021 | Press release
The governor also signed a series of bills into law LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a series of bipartisan bills, including the Good Moral Character and Clean Slate for Kids packages to further advance criminal justice reform in...
by admin | Jan 4, 2021 | Press release
The bill package was championed by the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration. LANSING, Mich. – Governor Gretchen Whitmer today signed into law a bipartisan package of criminal justice reform bills, resulting from the Michigan...
by admin | Dec 1, 2020 | Press release
LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Sylvia Santana (D-Detroit) has issued the following statement on today’s Senate Oversight Committee meeting, where testimony is being heard regarding absentee ballot counting at the TCF Center in Detroit: “In a global pandemic, the health and...
by admin | Oct 1, 2020 | Press release
LANSING, Mich. — Sens. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit), Erika Geiss (D-Taylor), Sylvia Santana (D-Detroit), Marshall Bullock(D-Detroit), and Jim Ananich (D-Flint) have introduced a bill package to reform policing in Michigan....
by admin | Sep 10, 2020 | Press release
LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Sylvia Santana (D-Detroit) has issued the following statement after the University of Michigan-Dearborn sparked ire for creating two virtual cafes, one for ‘Black, Indigenous and People of Color’ and the other for ‘Non-POC (People of Color)’ as a...
