Issue Position: Safer Communities and a Smarter Criminal Justice System

Issue Position

We need safer communities so that our families and neighborhoods can thrive. I am proud to sponsor and co-sponsor common sense gun violence prevention legislation that would institute universal background checks and extreme risk protection orders and allow school districts to opt out of open carry. I will continue to work hard to pass bipartisan legislation to bring more common sense to our criminal justice system. Michigan spends 2 billion dollars on corrections. We have made progress in reducing the prison population and I am proud to support bipartisan legislation that will help ensure that we are getting individuals out of the prison system who are medically frail or eligible for parole who are most likely to succeed back in the community. As State Representative, I passed legislation to ensure that exonerees who were wrongfully imprisoned receive reentry services. I also passed legislation to prohibit the sale of nitrous oxide "whip its" to minors and ensure that stores check identification before sale.

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