After #Debates2016: What You Need to Know About Stop and Frisk

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• Hours after we published our investigation into the use of police dogs as weapons in Baton Rouge, Mayor Sharon Broome directed the police chief to revise their policy on the pursuit of juveniles with dogs.
• Texas state representative James White is asking the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to rename the Darrington, Goree and Eastham prisons in response to Keri Blakinger's story about the racist roots of some prison names.
• New Mexico is likely going to pass a law to prevent the practice of kids being unnecessarily removed from their homes by police in response to our story about the problem of “short-stays” in foster care. The legislation would take child removals out of the hands of police altogether.