The first woman to ever hold the 1st Hampshire District seat, Lindsay Sabadosa has her AB from Wellesley College (‘02) and her MSc from the University of Edinburgh (‘06). She was the recipient of the Wellesley-Yenching Program Fellowship, which led her to spend a year in Nanjing, China as a fellow at Ginling College at Nanjing University. She then moved to Italy where she worked in Marketing & Communications at CUP2000, a company in Bologna that strives to improve access and delivery of health care and provide telemedicine solutions throughout the European Union. In the same period, she opened her own small business, a translation firm, specializing in Italian and French legal and financial translation with a focus on international litigation, contract law, and finance. She ran this firm, with over 300 clients on six continents, for nearly 17 years until her election.
AN ACT TO TRACK THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BRANGAN RULING (H.1866)
Currently, there is no data collection requirement for the Brangan rule, which requires judges to consider a defendant’s economic circumstances when setting bail and to either set affordable bail or to state clear reasons why unaffordable bail is necessary to assure the defendant’s return to court. This bill would require bail amounts, as well as charges, to be reported to the Committee for Public Counsel Services so that the data may be tracked to ensure proper implementation of the above ruling.
AN ACT REGARDING DECARCERATION AND COVID-19 (H.1868)
This bill would move immediately decarcerate within fourteen days individuals who are incarcerated pretrial who pose no immediate physical threat to the community in order to reduce the risk of the transmission of COVID-19. This includes those who are unable to afford cash bail under $10,000, fifty years of age or older, and who fall into the Center of Disease Control's classification of vulnerable populations.
AN ACT TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PEOPLE IN THE SEX TRADE (H.1867)
AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE LOCATION OF SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS (H.694)
AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE DISCLOSURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT DISCIPLINARY RECORDS (HD.3252)
AN ACT RELATIVE TO SECURE BALLOT ACCESS FOR ELIGIBLE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS (H.833)