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ATLANTA — State lawmakers took up legislation Wednesday that would give the General Assembly a say over the declaration of public emergencies in Georgia.
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House Appropriations Human Resources Subcommittee
Chairman Katie Dempsey (R-Rome) and her Human Resources Subcommittee spent a part of President’s Day hearing more specifics regarding the FY 2022 Budget needs, particularly around the areas of the Departments of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, Human Resources (including Division of Family and Children’s Services), Veterans Services, Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities and Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency. The full tracking document for HB 81, the proposed spending plan for FY 2022, is here.
The Subcommittee heard presentations from the Departments and agencies, but the real discussions were the testimonies provided by the public. A few highlights of the agencies presentations included:
12/30/2020
Local activists on the fight for racial justice: ‘We’re not done yet’
Isaiah Figueroa, left, and Dewayne Hill, both from Woonsocket, marched in a youth-led Black Lives Matter protest in Woonsocket in June. (Breeze File photo by Lauren clem)
WOONSOCKET – While much of the focus of 2020 was on the COVID-19 pandemic, events of this past spring threw another kind of national crisis into the spotlight.
In May, the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer set off a national reckoning over race and use of force that spread to communities across the country. In Woonsocket, groups held peaceful protests along Main Street even as fears those protests could turn violent went unfulfilled.