License Plate Readers, Parental Consent, and Shackled Justice

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IN THE NEWS:
License-plate readers will be on the agenda next month when the General Assembly gavels into session next month. Critics of surveillance-state politics worry about misidentification -- innocent people getting caught up in a high-tech frenzy.

Back in 1997, then-governor George Allen signed a bill achieving a long-term goal of social conservatives. The new law required parental consent for minors seeking an abortion. Now former governor Allen says he worries that law will be eliminated by a constitutional amendment lawmakers will consider in January. The amendment has language guaranteeing abortion rights for "every individual" rather than "every adult."

Advocates at Justice Forward Virginia are working on a bill that would require a judge to make an individual determination about whether a juvenile needs to be shackled – rather than allowing sheriffs to indiscriminately shackle every juvenile who appears before a judge.

TRIVIA: What was the name of the notorious Loudoun woman who poisoned her husband and children with arsenic?

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