Tag Archives: Sharon Brown

AUDIO: Cutoff highlights refusal to address emergency powers — one of many majority Democrat failures, say top Senate Republicans

By tracyellis | Published on April 12, 2021

Non-budget bills that haven’t passed both chambers of the state legislature are now dead, including a measure that would have addressed one-man rule.

Tracy Ellis has this update.

Senate passes Brown measure to create youth safety tip line

By tracyellis | Published on February 25, 2021

Isolation, depression, and anxiety caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and recent social unrest are driving some teens to take their own lives, but the state Senate isn’t sitting idly by. Senator Sharon Brown’s bill that would create a tip-line and mobile app to allow students to confidentially report potential self-harm or harm to others passed unanimously in the Senate. The views expressed by individual members are not necessarily those of the entire caucus.

AUDIO: Senate passes Brown’s measure to create youth-safety tip line

By tracyellis | Published on 

Isolation, depression, and anxiety caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and recent social unrest are driving some teens to take their own lives, but the state Senate isn’t sitting idly by.

Tracy Ellis explains.

VIDEO: Youth Empowered to Speak-up: Tip line for those in need

By tracyellis | Published on January 28, 2021

Washington State Senator Sharon Brown, R-Kennewick, discusses her efforts to implement the Youth Empowered to Speak-up program statewide. Here legislation, Senate Bill 5327, would create a tip line to allow students to confidentially report potential self-harm or criminal activities directed at schools, students or school employees. In the video, she talks with teen suicide prevention activist Connor Mertens of Kennewick and Benton-Franklin Community Health Alliance, who were both instrumental in advocating for the program, which has proven successful in several states.

 

KENNEWICK-RICHLAND-PASCO, WA