State Representative Denise C. Garlick represents the 43,000 people of the 13 Norfolk District, comprised of Needham, Dover and Medfield (precincts 1 and 2). She currently serves as the Chair of Bills in Third Reading, which is the final committee legislation must pass before it can be engrossed. She is also serving as the elected Chair of the permanent funded Commission on the Status of Persons with Disabilities and she is the only legislator serving on the Opioid Trust Fund Advisory Council.
This session, the Legislature passed comprehensive criminal justice legislation, seeking to fulfill the promise of justice for all. In the past, there have been – and still are – racial and socio-economic inequalities in our criminal justice system, and the omnibus bill passed this year worked to change that.