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On the recordMarch 24, 2023
The underlying bill has a lot of ambiguity about things like what is an injury? What is violent activity? Does there have to be an injury? If there has to be an injury, then a shooting where the bullet misses and there is no injury would not be covered. But somebody pushes somebody and they slip and get a bloody nose, that would be an injury and that would be violent activity. It is very poorly defined. Second is, aware of a video recording. Does that include fellow students' cell phones and other things? Does it include a monitoring of the school system monitoring? It doesn't say anything about numerous rights and laws, rights of privacy, and what to do after you find out, what can you do about it. That is a little unclear. It doesn't say what rights you have to the video or anything like that. I think it causes more questions than answers, and I hope we would defeat the amendment. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia
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Mar 24, 2023

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