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    Fighting Crime
    • Sponsored legislation urging the Florida legislature to enact legislation providing for Domestic Violence Task Force to review domestic violence fatalities and make recommendations to improve agency responses and prevent fatalities. Also urged legislature to enact legislation exempting certain specified information on domestic violence fatalities from public records disclosure and to exempt certain meetings of the Task Force from public meeting requirements.
    • Sponsored ordinance requiring locking devices on firearms stored in Miami-Dade County.
    • Worked to add a Miami-Dade County Police Department Community Work Station at The Falls shopping center to serve surrounding communities.
    • Added police officers, three neighborhood bicycle patrol squads, and four police storefront substations.
    • Added a Robbery Intervention Detail to target high crime areas throughout District 8.
    • Established neighborhood patrolling as a priority.
    • Helped create the County’s Task Force on Graffiti and numerous anti-graffiti initiatives.
    • Sponsored legislation and worked with Mayor Alex Penelas on gun control measures.
    • Strongly advocated for the Safe Street/Clean Sweep program targeting serious offenders, which led to more than 5,000 arrests countywide and approximately 1,500 arrests in south Miami-Dade.
    • Sponsored legislation requiring the implementation of domestic violence prevention and intervention programs, as recommended by a 1994 Miami-Dade County Grand Jury report.
    • Sponsored legislation requiring employers to allow unpaid leave for employees experiencing domestic violence.
    • Provided leadership in campaign to end practice of firing guns to celebrate holidays.
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