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Senate committee hears bill to let community-based facilities help inmates get state IDs
Summary
At a first hearing on House Bill 393, sponsors Representatives Klick and Darnell Brewer told the Senate Addiction and Community Revitalization Committee the bill would let community-based correctional facilities assist people in obtaining state identification before release, aiming to reduce barriers to housing, benefits and employment. Committee members requested participation estimates and measures of success.
At a first hearing before the Senate Addiction and Community Revitalization Committee, Representatives Klick and Darnell Brewer urged support for House Bill 393, which would authorize community-based correctional facilities to help incarcerated individuals obtain state-issued identification before they are released.
Representative Klick, sponsor of HB 393, said the bill "aims to remove significant and often overlooked barriers that individuals face when reentering our communities from the criminal justice system." He told the committee the change would extend services already provided by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) and the Department of Youth Services (DYS) to people in community-based correctional facilities after those facilities…
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