The D.C. Council chairman and the commission director said they disagree with the mayor’s proposal, arguing that the commission’s expertise remains important.
to provide legal and policy analysis of proposed legislation, and then updated its responsibilities five years later to include developing recommendations to overhaul D.C.’s criminal statute. That work culminated in the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022.The commission, according to legislation passed in 2020, was supposed to remain as a permanent entity that would oversee implementation and future amendments to the new code and continue to issue recommendations relating to D.C. criminal law.
On Wednesday, Bowser expressed commitment to reworking the city’s criminal code, which includes outdated laws such as banning“The council and the mayor are the policymakers of the city, and I believe the work remains among the 14 of us,” Bowser said. “I said that the work of the Criminal Code Reform Commission, in my view, is done.”be a mistake.
“It’s a sad day for everybody who cares about public safety,” Sulton said. “To eliminate the best mechanism we have for producing change in a thoughtful, evidence-driven way is a huge step backward.”
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