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Council continues PeaceDC omnibus measures to avert gaps in public-safety, survivor benefits and record-sealing rules
Summary
The Council passed the PeaceDC Omnibus permanent and emergency measures, extending some pretrial presumptions, adjusting MPD educational-credit rules, expanding survivor benefits for Fire/EMS and closing a Second Chance sealing gap; members debated the permanence of expanded pretrial detention.
The Council adopted the PeaceDC Omnibus Amendment Act and a corresponding emergency measure on July 1 to avoid a lapse in multiple public-safety and criminal-justice provisions.
Sponsor Councilmember Brooke Pinto described the omnibus package as a suite of measures intended to strengthen public safety and support public-safety personnel and survivors. Key elements included a permanent extension (and emergency continuation) of a rebuttable presumption for pretrial detention in certain violent offenses, adjustments to Metropolitan Police Department college-credit and hiring rules, expansion of survivor benefits for firefighters and emergency medical personnel in line with presumptive-illness…
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