Shelly in the News
Hogan Signs Student-Athlete Safety Legislation In Honor of Late Baltimore Football Player Elijah Gorham
BY CHRISTINE CONDON BALTIMORE SUN APRIL, 21, 2022 AT 3:30 PM During a ceremony Thursday at the State House, Gov. Larry Hogan signed into law the Elijah Gorham Act, named after the Baltimore high school football player who died last year after suffering a traumatic...
Time to Make Maryland a National Leader in Service
SHELLY HETTLEMAN AND SANDY ROSENBERG GUEST COMMENTARY FOR MARYLAND MATTERS MARCH 31, 2022 Hettleman represents Baltimore County’s District 11 in the Maryland Senate. Rosenberg represents Baltimore City’s District 41 in the House of Delegates. Both are Democrats....
Compassionate Release from Prison: A Moral Imperative
BY SHELLY HETTLEMAN AND VIVIAN PENDA FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN Jan 26, 2022, at 11:34 am Capital punishment was abolished in Maryland as a failed and immoral policy in 2013 because it was ineffectual in deterring crime, could not be administered without racial bias, and...
Baltimore County Library Staff Votes to Form Union
By TAYLOR DEVILLE BALTIMORE SUN MEDIA | JAN 7, 2022 at 8:40 AM A majority of Baltimore County Public Library employees have voted to unionize and join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The election tees up employees’ collective...
Relief & Updates
Click here for the newsletter! Dear Friends, We are in the thick of session where I zoom into committee hearings, participate in in-person committee voting sessions, and vote on bills from my desk on the Senate floor. In between, I'm on the phone with constituents,...
Baltimore County Librarians Seek to Unionize
By TAYLOR DEVILLE BALTIMORE SUN MEDIA | JAN 12, 2021 AT 5:30 AM Citing a lack of transparency and communication from Baltimore County Public Library leadership and seeking health care benefits for almost half the library system’s workforce, library employees are...
Proposed Maryland Legislation Expands Hate Crime Law
By: Capital News Service Kimberly SeifFebruary 3, 2021 COLLEGE PARK — Judges will be allowed to require people charged with hate crimes to complete anti-bias education programs if a bill to expand the current Maryland hate crime law is passed. Sen. Shelly Hettleman,...
Want to Reduce Overdoses? Give People a Safe Place to Do Drugs
By BALTIMORE SUN EDITORIAL BOARD BALTIMORE SUN | JAN 29, 2021 AT 11:16 AM Dr. Bethany DiPaula, a pharmacist with the Howard County Health Department, demonstrates how to put together a syringe of Naloxone which can reverse and overdose, at an opiate overdose response...
Maryland Considers Giving a Lawyer to Low-Income Renters Facing Eviction
JAN 29, 9:28 AM Ally Schweitzer Most tenants sued for eviction in Maryland don’t have legal representation, making it more likely they lose their homes. Tyrone Turner / WAMU Thousands of Marylanders are sued for eviction every year. Most of them don’t have lawyers,...
Detention Fees Unfairly Burden Poor People
Detention fees unfairly burden poor people | COMMENTARY By DOUG COLBERT and COLIN STARGER FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN | JAN 29, 2021 AT 6:24 AM Irvin Haygood looks through receipts that he paid at his Dundalk apartment as he fights to regain his life with the weight of...