End of Session

Who wants to jump in and talk about, let's first talk about what was completed.

Who wants to jump in on that side?

I'm happy to jump in and highlight a few of those so that as folks who if you're listening to this podcast, you probably heard us talk before about how so often the legislature pushes everything until the very end of the formal legislative session for context of July 31st was the last day of the formal session.

So they're on break in August.

They'll be spotty when they're in the building for the rest of the session until the new one begins a few days into January of next year.

And by the way,

I'm imagining them each having spots on themselves.

They'll be spotty

until

January.

Exactly.

Only then do the spots remove.

Exactly.

That's paid.

So one of their big accomplishments, the session, was the Protect Act.

That was their bill for responding to ICE that has both a number of good provisions, some provisions that are somewhat hand-wavy, and then some stuff that it didn't touch.

Just as a reminder for folks, That did such things as effectively banning new 287G agreements, which are the collaboration agreements between state and local law enforcement and ICE.

But it does not touch the existing one between the Department of Correction and ICE because Healy is deeply emotionally attached and protective of the existing one for very long.

And we're the only blue state to still have it.

Public safety arguments.

Say that again, Jordan.

Yeah.

We're the only blue state that has it.

Exactly.

We're the only one.

Who wants to jump in and talk about, let's first talk about what was completed.

Who wants to jump in on that side?

I'm happy to jump in and highlight a few of those so that as folks who if you're listening to this podcast, you probably heard us talk before about how so often the legislature pushes everything until the very end of the formal legislative session for context of July 31st was the last day of the formal session.

So they're on break in August.

They'll be spotty when they're in the building for the rest of the session until the new one begins a few days into January of next year.

And by the way,

I'm imagining them each having spots on themselves.

They'll be spotty

until

January.

Exactly.

Only then do the spots remove.

Exactly.

That's paid.

So one of their big accomplishments, the session, was the Protect Act.

That was their bill for responding to ICE that has both a number of good provisions, some provisions that are somewhat hand-wavy, and then some stuff that it didn't touch.

Just as a reminder for folks, That did such things as effectively banning new 287G agreements, which are the collaboration agreements between state and local law enforcement and ICE.

But it does not touch the existing one between the Department of Correction and ICE because Healy is deeply emotionally attached and protective of the existing one for very long.

And we're the only blue state to still have it.

Public safety arguments.

Say that again, Jordan.

Yeah.

We're the only blue state that has it.

Exactly.

We're the only one.