Not new to this fight, criminal justice reform has been — and will continue to be — one of Dave’s highest priorities. In fact, he has consistently been one of the Representatives on the leading edge of this issue, filing a wide variety of reform bills each session. The Commonwealth passed major criminal justice reform in the 2017/2018 session, now hailed as a model for how to improve justice systems across the country. That law reduced or eliminating mandatory minimum sentences, reduced the use of solitary confinement, and codified important changes to the bail system so that low-income defendants are not unfairly imprisoned pre-trial. Given the outrage over the killing of George Floyd and innumerable other acts of state-sanctioned violence against people of color, Dave is pushing for major additional reforms now. In fact, working with the senior-most member of the Black and Latino caucus of legislators (Representative Frank Moran, a Dominican-American), Dave has filed two reform bills, one of which expressly guarantees the right of the public to film law enforcement and the other of which creates a new civil right for people of color who are falsely reported to law enforcement.