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I don't understand how this resolve mass incarceration nor racial profiling problems against the people of color in Maryland. Now the people of color will enrich the Maryland Judicial system by paying off fines because they racial profiled and targeted in traffic stops just by the visual eye by the police officers.“Over 72 percent of people in Maryland’s prisons are African American, according to the 2010 Division of Corrections Annual Report. “Only 29.4 percent of Marylanders are black. In July 2014, the Montgomery County government complained inequality of arrests blacks vs whites with marijuana uses. As blacks is only 18% of Montgomery County population and white are 57% of the population blacks are the highest to be arrested while the use of marijuana users are equally more white. In Maryland, Democrats runs the Senate which proves that Democrats is not resolving the inequality within the Judicial system in regards to race and ethnicity. Now blacks will be paying the fines like Ferguson as they are targeted and racial profiled in Maryland.
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7/21/2019 Letter From Cheryl Kagan, Senator
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February 2,2076
Ms.
Merceda
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Gaithersburg, MD
2087 8-L345
Dear Ms. Gooding,
Thank
you
for
contacting
me about
legislation
passed
by the
General
Assembly in 2015 and subsequently
vetoed
by the
Governor.
The
Senate
has
overridden
four
of
those
vetoes:
.
SB
190,
which closes a loophole by
requiring that the
retail
sales tax
be applied
to online
travel
companies
in the same
manner
as
it
does to other
retailers
in
the
State
of
Maryland.
o
SB
517,
which
decriminalizes
possession
of
marijuana-related
paraphernalia
and
makes smoking
marijuana in
a
public
place
a
civil
violation
punishable
by
a
fine.
o
SB
528,
which
establishes
a
minimum amount of
5300
that is
subject to
lawful
seizure
in
drug
related
offenses.
o
A
Capital
Budget
item of
S2M
for
Maryland
Hall for the Creative
Arts in Annapolis.
The
fifth
bill, SB
340, restores
voting
rights
to
felons
who
have been released
from
prison
but have
not
completed their
parole
or
probation.
lt is
scheduled
for
an
override
vote
on
February 5. I
voted
to
override
the other
four vetoes, and
I
will
vote to override the veto of this bill,
because
I believe
they
are
good policy.
I
appreciate
your
taking the time to
contact
me.
lf
you
are
interested
in receiving updates
on
these
issues and
others,
please
sign up via
my
website www.CherylKagan.org.
Outreach
from constituents
helps me to
more
effectively
represent
Rockville and Gaithersburg
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and
residents
of
the
entire
state.
Annapolis
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