In the statement Sunday, Windsor officials said an internal investigation opened at the time into the use of force determined that department policy wasn’t followed.
In addition to being able to vote, the rights include the right to serve on a jury, run for office and become a public notary.
“Too many of our laws were written during a time of open racism and discrimination, and they still bear the traces of inequity,” Northam said in a statement.
“If we want people to return to our communities and participate in society, we must welcome them back fully and this policy does just that,” he said.
Under the state constitution, the governor can restore civil rights to former felons. If the constitutional amendment is approved, the restoration of rights will become automatic when a felon is released from prison.
Mitsi Studebaker is 61 years old. Since she was 28, the Roanoke woman has worked as a nurse. In November she was working for a private-duty agency inside the home of a disabled 3-year-old girl.
âShe had been real sick that day and actually stopped breathing,â Studebaker said Friday. âShe went to the hospital. The next morning the mother texted me that [the little girl] had COVID.â
So did Studebaker, who said she began developing symptoms a day or two later, around Nov. 17. She tested positive, too.
The little girl recovered. But obviously, Studebaker couldnât work while she was herself infected. So she temporarily left her job at that time, and filed a claim with the Virginia Employment Commission for pandemic-related unemployment benefits.
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and last updated 2021-03-03 20:25:04-05
RICHMOND, Va. - Flags across the Commonwealth will be lowered half-staff in honor of a Virginia police officer who was killed in the line of duty last month.
Virginia State Police said Gov. Ralph Northam ordered U.S. and Virginia flags to be lowered Thursday from sunrise to sunset in memory of Stanley Police Officer Dominic J. Nick Winum.
According to the Associated Press, Officer Winum, 48, was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Feb. 26. He was reportedly shot before he could get out of his patrol vehicle.
Winum had been with the Stanley Police Department since 2016, and he had previously been a Virginia State Police Trooper, AP reported.
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