Candidate for Massachusetts Attorney General in 2022 Massachusetts Primary Election.
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Get StartedShannon will know how to navigate the new legal landscape following the fall of Roe and will aggressively fight back against any attempts by other states to reach into Massachusetts and enforce their draconian anti-choice laws here against people coming here for abortion and other reproductive health care services. Learn more
Shannon will also support efforts to implement LGBTQ+-inclusive curriculum in schools and efforts to strengthen our anti-bullying laws so that LGBTQ+ youth are safe and affirmed in our schools. Learn more
Shannon will ensure that the Office’s civil rights attorneys work across bureaus and divisions to tackle discrimination effectively in housing, employment, education, public accommodations, and more. Shannon will increase outreach initiatives for the Civil Rights Division and strengthen partnerships with civil rights and community organizations across Massachusetts. Learn more
Shannon will also support comprehensive reforms to the Department of Corrections to ensure greater transparency and accountability and will champion a moratorium on building new prisons and jails. Learn more
Shannon will support efforts to legalize safe consumption sites, to end sentences of life without parole, to end mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, and to ban the use of long-term solitary confinement. Learn more
She will strongly oppose lifting the cap on charter schools, as well as efforts by the state to take over public school districts through receivership. Shannon will stand up for the rights of teachers and education support staff and will support legislation to grant teachers and other public employees the right to strike. Learn more
Shannon will work to ensure that we provide a just transition for workers as we move to a clean energy future and will fight back against attempts by corporations to use this transition as an opportunity to undermine worker protections and labor laws. Shannon will continue to be a vocal advocate for fare free public transportation across Massachusetts and for a Green New Deal. Learn more
As Attorney General, Shannon will protect consumers from scams and corporate fraud, investigate corporate price gouging, and modernize our regulatory protections. She will ensure that the Attorney General’s Office protects student loan borrowers from predatory loan servicing companies. She will advance racial justice for consumers and use our consumer protection laws to hold so-called crisis pregnancy centers accountable for deceptive practices. Learn more
As Attorney General, Shannon will defend the recently-enacted VOTES Act from frivolous right-wing court challenges and ensure the law is fairly and effectively implemented. Learn more
She will use every tool available to expand workers’ ability to organize and collectively bargain, as well as the bully pulpit of the Attorney General’s Office to trumpet the importance of unions. Learn more
As Attorney General, Shannon will hold gun manufacturers accountable and ensure that we treat gun violence as the public health epidemic that it is. Shannon will ramp up enforcement of our state assault weapon ban and prosecution of the use of “ghost guns.”. Learn more
Shannon will also fight to ensure that nurses have safe and dignified working conditions that reflect the contributions they make to our communities and she will fight for safe staffing levels to ensure the highest level of patient care. Learn more
She will also support critically needed legislation to enhance tenant protections, such as just cause eviction, tenant right to counsel, and eviction sealing. Learn more
Shannon will crack down on slumlords and absentee landlords who leave tenants in unsafe housing situations and will advocate for new legislation to ensure that all of our housing stock is free from lead. Learn more
As Attorney General, Shannon will pursue aggressive, systemic enforcement of wage laws to fight wage theft and worker misclassification; establish a fund to ensure workers with wage theft claims get paid right away; and pursue debarment of companies that have repeatedly engaged in wage theft to ensure they are not awarded public contracts. Learn more
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