Did you know? The 2017-2018 session in our state’s legislature is full of gun bills as a result of House Republicans’ commitment to “defend second amendment rights” in this session. As a result, most of the gun bills you will see below have been introduced by Republicans. However, only a few have been introduced by…
A battle over gun ownership rights is happening right here in Michigan. Now it’s headed to the Supreme Court. Michigan’s Supreme Court, that is. It may not be long before our nation’s highest court is hearing cases similar to this one. Repeated gun violence and terrorist threats have resulted in students making a protest across…
In the wake of all the student protests, school shootings, and terrorist threats made across Michigan, it might be helpful to have a guide for what student rights are in school. Most school discipline isn’t about terrorist threats and most of the time school discipline can be handled in school. However, sometimes school discipline matters…
Thanks to several decades of police procedural television, many people know a lot of legal speech. Some of you also know some of the more important constitutional rights that may be used to defend you in a court of law if you should find yourself facing charges after being searched or having your property seized.
An article was published in MLive about the Washtenaw Intermediate School District. It covered how the county has adopted a new program – Handle With Care. Handle With Care is basically a training and informational program designed to help teachers and school administrators to recognize the signs of trauma in children.
We have now reached the point where – as horrible as school shootings are – there are those who treat it as a joke, or make light of becoming the “next school shooter.” Mainly teenaged boys. Why would someone jeopardize their future in order to do something like this? At the best, it was a…
Should a 15-year-old kid be woken in the middle of the night to the sounds of police banging on his door and then questioned in his underwear? What if that kid had made a video mimicking the Columbine shooters basement tapes, talking about how he and two friends were going to shoot up their high…
Every time we get a big snowstorm in Michigan, there are appear to be cars the ditches at the side of the road. On the highways, drivers with four-wheel drive commonly don’t slow down at all in snowy conditions or change the way they drive. The traffic-related deaths are high on several of our highways…
There is so much to say about the issue of gun violence and mental health. It’s hard to know where to begin. Nikolas Cruz is the person who allegedly killed 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018.
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