Letter to the editor: While it may have good intentions, Flanagan’s Law lacks respect for personal liberty, privacy, and issues of mental health

This is a letter to the editor submitted to Fall River Reporter and was not written by us.

Representative Silvia’s proposed legislation – dubbed “Flanagan’s Law” – is a dangerous combination of carelessness and ineffectiveness.

The bill’s negligent lack of specificity in, and due respect for, profoundly critical issues of personal privacy, civil liberties, criminal justice, and mental health are astonishingly reckless…

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