This story for Coastal Bend Black Excellence focuses on the Je’Sani Smith Foundation and the purpose is to save lives by providing education and awareness on rip currents and how people can be safe at the beach.
This story for Coastal Bend Black Excellence focuses on the Je’Sani Smith Foundation and the purpose is to save lives by providing education and awareness on rip currents and how people can be safe at the beach.
Victim s family, community celebrated for passage of drowning-prevention laws
Dale Nelson weather 6-28-21
and last updated 2021-06-28 23:46:59-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â Local and state leaders came together Monday to honor the mother of a Corpus Christi teenager who drowned after a rip current off Whitecap Beach dragged him out into the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2019.
Kiwana Denson, mother of 18-year-old King High School Senior Je Sani Smith, led the charge through her Je Sani Smith Foundation to convince representatives and senators in Austin to pass two laws designed to prevent tragedies like the one that happened to her son.
Je Sani Smith Act one signature away from becoming law Je Sani Smith Act one signature away from becoming law
and last updated 2021-06-01 21:22:55-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â The Texas State Legislature recently passed two proposals penned by State Representative Todd Hunter; one of them being the JeâSani Smith Act.
The JeâSani Smith Act is named after a King High School student who drowned at a local beach in 2019.
House Bill 3807, the JeâSani Smith Act, would require cities, counties, and the Parks and Wildlife Department to add signs and lifeguards by each pier, jetty, or other structure that extends into the Gulf of Mexico on public beaches. House Concurrent Resolution 46 would designate April as âBeach Safety and Rip Current Awareness Monthâ in Texas.