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Committee passes criminal justice reform bill over Louisville representative s protests Joe Sonka, Louisville Courier Journal
FRANKFORT A criminal justice reform bill to raise the threshold of felony theft from $500 to $1,000 in Kentucky passed a House committee by a wide margin Wednesday.
While advocates for House 126 argue it will align Kentucky s theft statutes with other states and reduce the prison inmate population, two Republican committee members criticized the legislation and criminal justice reform measures, in general, as misguided efforts that will endanger the public.
Under Kentucky law, theft of property worth more than $500 is a felony, which is a lower threshold than 45 other states and has not been updated to account for inflation since 2009.
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“It’s definitely not sensitivity and it’s definitely not diversity. There used to be sensitivity and diversity years ago, and this is not that.”
Christopher Paslay has spent 24 years working as a Philadelphia teacher, and has a background in multicultural education. He told the Daily Caller that celebrating diversity in the classroom used to include tolerance and understanding, but schools across the country are taking a different approach to educating about different cultures by hiring “anti-racism” trainers, who accuse others of being complicit in racism.
“I think it’s gotten to the point where people fear [being accused of not participating in racial justice efforts],” Paslay said. “People still don’t know what anti-racism is. They think it’s just social justice, but they don’t know the other components to it.”
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