Mike Barrett is State Senator for nine Massachusetts communities — Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston, and large parts of Lexington and Sudbury. Mike serves as Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. The committee’s jurisdiction covers everything from cell phones to alternative energy to public utility reform to carbon pricing.
Since the very start of his career – when it really mattered – Mike has been unwaveringly pro-choice. In 1992 he drafted and won passage of a first-in-the-nation domestic violence registry law, requiring that the state’s criminal record systems be networked together and that judges check on abusers’ past histories before ruling on requests for restraining orders.