by jdi-admin | Mar 22, 2024 | Media Coverage
Ruihan Yang Boston University Statehouse Program After years of being homeless, Amy “adapted” to living on the streets under insecurity. “I thought I wasn’t going to wake up, but I woke up, and I’m fine. The more I feel adapted to staying outside without a person that...
by jdi-admin | Mar 22, 2024 | Media Coverage
Hannah Loss March 22, 2024 Massachusetts could join a small group of states expanding the definition of domestic violence to include acts of coercive control. The Senate bill passed on Thursday not only amends the state’s criminal harassment law and establishes...
by jdi-admin | Mar 21, 2024 | Media Coverage
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated March 20, 2024, 4:46 p.m. When Katelynn Spencer discovered in 2020 that two videos of her had been uploaded to a pornographic website, they had already been online for a decade. By then, she said, the videos — both recorded when she...
by jdi-admin | Mar 4, 2024 | Media Coverage
By Tiffany Chan, CBS Boston BOSTON – The Massachusetts State Senate approved a bill Thursday to update the state’s sex education curriculum in schools and make it more inclusive. The proposal would include teaching students about gender identity as well as...
by jdi-admin | Jan 17, 2024 | Media Coverage
By Christina Prignano and John Hancock Globe Staff,Updated January 16, 2024, 1:58 p.m. The deaths of a Dover mother and daughter may be among the most recent instances of domestic violence homicide in Massachusetts, but it’s a distressingly common phenomenon, with 19...
by jdi-admin | Jan 12, 2024 | Media Coverage
Supporters have been pressing policymakers for years to crack down on revenge porn, warning that it subjects victims — many of whom are women — to harrowing economic and emotional damage By Bianca Beltrán and Chris Lisinski • Published January 10,...
