Shelly in the News
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...
NPR: Can Maryland Avert An Eviction Crisis?
By SHEILAH KAST & MAUREEN HARVIE At the end of this month, hundreds of thousands of Maryland renters may be called to court for failure to pay rent. State Senator Shelly Hettlemen represents Baltimore County. She leads a workgroup advocating for a dozen actions to...
MPT News: Averting Mass Evictions
As the nation is struggling with high unemployment which is leading to people falling behind on their rent payments, the State Senate's Housing Workgroup released a report this week with ideas on how to avoid mass evictions. Senator Shelly Hettleman and Sen. Chris...
Baltimore Sun Legislative report: Struggling Maryland families need more assistance with rent | COMMENTARY
By SHELLY HETTLEMAN I know of a renter in Baltimore who is two months behind in rent and has diabetes among many underlying health conditions. Reliant on Social Security disability and income from her college-aged daughter who is unable to find employment, she faces a...
Center for Reproductive Rights: Center Helps Expand Access to IVF in Maryland
New law to end discriminatory insurance coverage 06.17.2020 In a victory for people seeking in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in Maryland, the Center for Reproductive Rights, working in partnership with the Women's Law Center of Maryland, helped to pass a bill that expands...
WBAL: House passes bill to extend insurance coverage for IVF to unmarried people
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The House of Delegates voted Thursday overwhelmingly in favor of extending insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization for unmarried people. The legislation also decreases the time any woman must try and fail to conceive by other methods before...
Baltimore Sun: Maryland Gov. Hogan appoints Hettleman, Ruth to vacant seats in General Assembly
By PAMELA WOOD Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan filled two vacant seats for Baltimore County in the General Assembly on Thursday. Following the recommendation of Baltimore County Democrats, Hogan named Del. Shelly Hettleman to an open seat in the state Senate and progressive...