by jdi-admin | Jun 13, 2024 | Media Coverage
BY STEVE LEBLANC Updated 6:47 PM EDT, June 13, 2024 BOSTON (AP) — A bill aimed at outlawing “revenge porn” has been approved by lawmakers in the Massachusetts House and Senate and shipped to Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, a move advocates say was long overdue. If...
by jdi-admin | May 4, 2024 | Media Coverage
By Alyssa Enright, news correspondent May 4, 2024 The exterior of the Massachusetts State House. Bill H.4241 was introduced during this year’s state legislative session. Photo by Harriet Rovniak. Massachusetts is currently one of two states without any protections for...
by jdi-admin | Mar 22, 2024 | Media Coverage
Ruihan Yang Boston University Statehouse Program After years of being homeless, Amy “adapted” to living on the streets under insecurity. “I thought I wasn’t going to wake up, but I woke up, and I’m fine. The more I feel adapted to staying outside without a person that...
by jdi-admin | Mar 22, 2024 | Media Coverage
Hannah Loss March 22, 2024 Massachusetts could join a small group of states expanding the definition of domestic violence to include acts of coercive control. The Senate bill passed on Thursday not only amends the state’s criminal harassment law and establishes...
by jdi-admin | Mar 21, 2024 | Media Coverage
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated March 20, 2024, 4:46 p.m. When Katelynn Spencer discovered in 2020 that two videos of her had been uploaded to a pornographic website, they had already been online for a decade. By then, she said, the videos — both recorded when she...
by jdi-admin | Mar 4, 2024 | Media Coverage
By Tiffany Chan, CBS Boston BOSTON – The Massachusetts State Senate approved a bill Thursday to update the state’s sex education curriculum in schools and make it more inclusive. The proposal would include teaching students about gender identity as well as...
