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Delaware Family Court marks 50th anniversary
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Why Delaware can isolate, quarantine people who refuse COVID-19 vaccine
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Delaware News Journal
Vaccine skepticism during the COVID-19 pandemic has revived a debate over a nearly 20-year-old law allowing Delaware to quarantine and isolate people if they refuse an inoculation.
The law was originally written to help the state respond to bioterrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Gov. John Carney s office said he does not plan to use the authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, but Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to make sure that he doesn t.
Senate Bill 58 by Sen. Dave Lawson, R-Marydel, would remove the governor s ability to isolate or quarantine people against their will during Carney s COVID-19 state of emergency. The bill does not take the powers away from the governor for future emergencies.
Longtime Sacramento civil rights activist and Capitol staffer Georgette Imura dies at 77
Sacramento Bee 12/24/2020 Ashley Wong, The Sacramento Bee
Dec. 23 Longtime Sacramento civil rights activist and Capitol staffer Georgette Imura died from lung cancer on Dec. 17. She was 77.
Imura was born Georgette Yamamoto on October 18, 1943, in the Manzanar concentration camp at the foot of the Sierra Nevadas. She spent the first two years of her life imprisoned there before her family was eventually released. Her family settled in midtown Sacramento when she was 4.
Described as feisty, headstrong and bold her whole life, Imura entered the Capitol for the first time as a receptionist in 1967, working her way over the course of 28 years to hold numerous leadership positions in the state Legislature.