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    By: Sheila Regan, Freelance Journalist In a Zoom committee hearing of the Minnesota House Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance and Policy Division, lawmakers addressed police accountability in Minnesota.  Rep Carlos Mariani (DFL, St. Paul), chaired the hearing, which started out with a presentation by House Legislative analyst Ben Johnson about what reforms were addressed during the legislative session, and how versions of reform differed between the House and the Senate.   Those reforms included issues such as choke holds, use of force policy, oversight bodies, and policy around police training.  According to Johnson, the provisions that were addressed by the House that were not contained in the Senate proposal included a prohibition on warrior-style training, residency requirements for police officers, an adjustment of civil statute of limitations on sexual assault or wrongful death against police officers, a law enforcement oversight council, an independent investigative unit in the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for all wrongful deaths and sexual assault by police officers, two grant programs that addressed alternative responses to safety, and an officer-involved death review board.  Many of the reforms that Minneapolis has sought to do has been blocked by the MN State Legislature,” said Rep. Jamie Long (DFL, 61B).

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    By: Sheila Regan, Freelance Reporter Senator Scott Newman (R, Hutchinson) called a joint Transportation and Judiciary Committee hearing on July 1 on the subject of businesses damaged or destroyed in recent riots. Lasting six hours, the hearing was the first of five or six hearings Newman said the joint committee would hold, taking on the topic of the unrest following George Floyd’s death by police.  “These hearings that we are going to have—there are going to be 5-6 of them total,” Newman said at the start of the hearing.

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