Listed below are a few other bills of civil liberties interest reviewed in prior newsletters that did not make it out of the General Assembly this session:
PRO-CIVIL LIBERTIES BILLS
- A bill to strengthen the state’s open records law.
- A bill to waive the state’s “sovereign immunity” from suit for violations of key federal civil rights, labor and environmental laws.
- A bill to amend the “unauthorized practice of law” statute to allow attorneys to share attorneys fees with non-profit organizations.
- A bill to limit state and municipal agencies from collecting Social Security Numbers as a condition of providing services.
- A bill to restrict local police from enforcing federal immigration law.
ANTI-CIVIL LIBERTIES BILLS
- A bill to require the state’s public universities to adopt policies that prohibit “any quality of indoctrination.”
- A bill to pass a “primary seat belt law” without protections against racial profiling.
- A bill to establish a males-only charter school for juvenile offenders being released from the Training School.
- A bill to allow for the forced administration of blood tests on persons involved in vehicular accidents involving death or serious injury.
- A bill to allow victims of “hate crimes” to keep their voter registration information secret.
