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Senator Kennedy Announces Senate Passage of Legislation to Crackdown on Sex Offenders who Abuse or Evade Registry

Senator Kennedy Announces Senate Passage of Legislation to Crackdown on Sex Offenders who Abuse or Evade Registry

May. 14 | Senate approves Kennedy-cosponsored bills to make it tougher for dangerous sex offenders to dodge registry rules   ALBANY, N.Y. – Senator Timothy M. Kennedy, D-58th District, announced the Senate has passed legislation to prevent dangerous...

Jay J.’s Law Passes through Senate Committee, Moves toward Full Senate Vote

Jay J.’s Law Passes through Senate Committee, Moves toward Full Senate Vote

May. 8 | Senate Codes Committee approves Jay J.’s Law at their meeting Tuesday, a critical step toward passing the legislation in full Senate ALBANY, N.Y. – Senator Timothy M. Kennedy, D-58th District, announced the Senate Codes Committee approved Jay J.’s...

Senator Kennedy Announces Senate Action to Prevent Underground Trafficking of Synthetic Marijuana, ‘Bath Salts’

Senator Kennedy Announces Senate Action to Prevent Underground Trafficking of Synthetic Marijuana, ‘Bath Salts’

Apr. 30 | Senate passes legislation to establish criminal penalties for the sale and possession of synthetic chemicals that mimic the effects of marijuana, ecstasy or meth ALBANY, N.Y. – Senator Timothy M. Kennedy, D-58th District, announced the Senate has taken...

New York State Senate Passes Grisanti’s Bill Criminalizing Concealment Of Human Corpse

New York State Senate Passes Grisanti’s Bill Criminalizing Concealment Of Human Corpse

Apr. 30 | Senator Mark Grisanti (R-60) today announced that the New York State Senate has voted to pass the Bill S.6489 which makes it a crime to conceal a death by knowingly moving or otherwise hiding a human corpse so that discovery of the death will be hindered. The...

WNY Lawmakers Urge State Action to Ban Synthetic Drugs

WNY Lawmakers Urge State Action to Ban Synthetic Drugs

Mar. 23 | Western New York lawmakers are urging immediate action from the state to ban synthetic drugs. Abuse of these chemicals is growing locally and nationally, but the state has done little to slow or stop the rapid spread of synthetic marijuana. Senator Tim...

Senator Kennedy Announces Senate Passage of DNA Databank Expansion

Senator Kennedy Announces Senate Passage of DNA Databank Expansion

Feb. 22 | Legislation will improve effectiveness of criminal investigation and prevent crime ALBANY, N.Y. – Senator Timothy M. Kennedy, D-58th District, announced the State Senate has passed legislation to expand the state’s DNA databank to prevent crime by...

Senator Kennedy Announces Actions Taken to Advance Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse

Senator Kennedy Announces Actions Taken to Advance Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse

Feb. 13 | Albany forum brings various perspectives together, Legislation against Rx abuse passes Senate. ALBANY, N.Y. – Senator Timothy M. Kennedy, D-58th District, announced that progress is being made in the fight against prescription drug abuse. At the State...

Amateur sleuth finds serial murders in old case files

Amateur sleuth finds serial murders in old case files

Jan. 19 | From Scripps  News Service (click for full story) ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A computer analyst turned amateur detective used old FBI crime files to identify a cluster of unsolved murders of young women in upstate New York that police agree was the work...

Senator Kennedy to Introduce Legislation to Deliver Justice for Victims of Child Abuse

Senator Kennedy to Introduce Legislation to Deliver Justice for Victims of Child Abuse

Aug. 25 | Legislation to fix gap in law that let North Tonawanda man off with light sentence after repeat child abuse BUFFALO, N.Y. – To protect victims of child abuse and deliver justice, Senator Timothy M. Kennedy, D-58th District, will introduce legislation...