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An interview with guest Paul Quander, Director of Court Services and Offender Supervision (CSOSA).

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U.S. Congressional Initiative to Reduce Youth Violence

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Initiative to Reduce Youth Violence

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (and others) have agreed to draft legislation to establish substantial... Read more.

  Blue Ribbon Task Force to call on Congress for legislative hearings regarding gun violence in America today.

Congressman Albert Wynn (D-MD0 with the support of Congressman Elijah Cummings, (D-MD), has commissioned this Blue Ribbon Task Force in order to address the epidemic of gun violence, increasing youth violence, and overall incidents of violence permeating American cities today and to call on Congress to hold legislative hearings to bring this issue to the forefront of the government and the American public...read more..

 

DC MAYOR ADRIAN FENTY,  COUNCILMEMBER JIM GRAHAM BEGIN AGGRESSIVE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO ADDRESS GUN VIOLENCE

 

PRESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2007 AT 10:30AM TO ANNOUNCE ANTI-GUN VIOLENCE PROACTIVE CAMPAIGN.

 

Danny Govan, 16 year old and mother, Sheila Govan, speaking for those victimized by gun violence.  The Govan family has had 10 members of its immediate family murdered as a result of gun violence in past years.  Victims of Gun Violence... Read more..

 

 

FENTY TO APPEAL OVERTURNED GUN BAN IN FEDERAL COURT
By Gary Emerling - THE WASHINGTON TIMES

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said city officials on Monday will file a legal challenge to a federal appeals court decision that struck down the District's 30-year-old gun ban... Read more..

 

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