Dear Billy T and Somerville News Weekly Speakup Line,

It is sad to say that since people have been letting homeless folks into the building to use our building’s community laundry facilities, the building is swarming

On Friday, February 14, 2020, I was assigned to marked unit East-4 and on routine patrol. At approximately 12:15 PM, I was

On February 12, 2020, I, Officer Tim Van Nostrand, was on duty and assigned to uniform patrol at Assembly Row. At approximately 5:06pm, I was dispatched along with Officer Chris Fusco (East 1) to

The deadline to apply for the Somerville Police Department’s Cadet Program is coming up on Sunday, March 1. The Cadet Program is a four-year paid apprenticeship program

By Bob Katzen
The Senate 37-0, approved an amendment creating a pediatric mental health care task force to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the delivery of pediatric mental health services in the state and

By Bob Katzen

The Senate 37-0, approved an amendment adding corrections officers to a current law that ensures confidentiality for police, fire, EMTs and

By Bob Katzen

The House gave initial approval to a bill that would empower people with disabilities to the extent possible to make their own informed life decisions with

By Bob Katzen

The Senate 37-0, approved an amendment to ensure that individuals under the age of 22 in the emergency room who are in need of

By Bob Katzen

The House gave initial approval to a bill that creates a new crime of rape of a person with a disability and imposes up to a

By Bob Katzen

The House gave initial approval to legislation giving equal access to original birth certificates to all persons born in Massachusetts.

By Bob Katzen

The House gave initial approval to a proposal that would change language in state laws including replacing “mentally retarded” with “individuals with a developmental disability” and

On 02/11/2020, while assigned to marked unit East-4, I had been dispatched to a XXXX call (Incident Number 20007871). While sitting outside of the house starting the report for that incident, one of

By Bob Katzen