See below for video and tweets from today’s public hearing (the second of three) of the Virginia House Courts of Justice and Public Safety Committees on Police and Criminal Justice Reform, as the House prepares legislation for the upcoming Special Session in mid-August. Also, thanks for the excellent tweets from the invaluable VAPLAN!



Speaker from @RAINN, whose presentation had to be censored for graphic images, discusses mandatory minimums in the context of sex abuse and assault and child sex abuse online images. Majority of perpetrators older & white.
— VAPLAN (@vaplan2018) July 29, 2020







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