Sen. GOP Calls for Drug Lab Oversight Board
The proposed five-member board would have oversight authority over all state facilities engaged in forensic services in criminal investigation.
In the wake of the Jamaica Plain Drug Lab crisis, the Massachusetts Senate Republican Caucus wants “tighter controls and higher standards” at its state drug labs. The caucus proposed a five-member board be established to “have oversight authority over all state facilities engaged in forensic services in criminal investigations,” according to a statement Wednesday. The board will consist of the secretary of public safety and security, the attorney general, the inspector general, the colonel of state police, or their designees, along with one appointee from the Governor, the statement said. “We need to create a new infrastructure of oversight, accountability, transparency and integrity, and this legislation will accomplish these goals,” …
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10:49 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Should Massachusetts (and Hawaii) opt out of "ObamaCare" since we have "MittLite?" Would that REMOVE the Medicare Tax on sales of property valued over $500,000? Us seniors who purchased our homes in the 60, 70s' at less than $100,000 dollars and now see our homes assessed at and selling for over a MILLION had this 'downsizing' as a leg of our retirement and OBJECT BIG TIME to the almost 4% … more ›