New Committee Would Review Police Misconduct In NH

CONCORD, NH — A plan to create a committee to screen and investigate potential police misconduct had no detractors Tuesday at a public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Bill 456 grew out of recommendations of the New Hampshire Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community, and Transparency and a legislative study committee appointed last […]

Bill To Require School Boards Offer Regular Public Comment

CONCORD – A bill was heard Tuesday by the Senate Education Committee that would require a thirty-minute public comment period at the beginning of all school board meetings. Supporters said a structure for such civic discourse would be beneficial and “calm the waters” which have been pretty choppy the past few years with COVID-19 issues, […]

Bill would update interstate compact dealing with child custody issues

Updated legislation filed in response to disappearance of Harmony Montgomery CONCORD, N.H. — Legislation is being proposed in the New Hampshire Senate in response to the disappearance of 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery. The bill is intended to help keep children safe by updating the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children, a mechanism for states to […]

Huyett: NH Senate Democrats Just Voted To Allow ‘Suspending’ The Constitution

New Hampshire liberty advocates won a major victory on Wednesday when our State Senate voted to pass HB 440, Rep. Jim Kofalt’s Civil Liberties Defense Act. This bill will prohibit constitutional rights from being suspended during a state of emergency. Kofalt proposed the bill because New Hampshire’s emergency powers laws have been interpreted by our […]

Carson: Veterans, We’re Ready To Help. Please Let Us

By Sen. Sharon Carson, NH Journal This past week, I read an important article in New Hampshire Journal penned by a fellow state legislator and fellow military veteran. He described in detail all of the feelings of anxiety and anger that have been awoken inside him by the infuriating events we’ve seen unfolding in Kabul. […]