Senator Chris Dodd: Archived Photos

Senators Call for End
to Youth Gun Violence

May 11, 2000




Senators Frank Lautenburg (D-N.J.), Dodd, Barbara Boxer (D-Ca.),
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Jack Reed (D-R.I.).


Video clip from the press conference.

Dodd joined other Senators to call for increased safety in the nation's schools and to urge more support for after-school initiatives which provide activities for schoolchildren during the hours when their safety is most at risk. An estimated 5 million children nationwide are left to care for themselves in the hours before and after school and almost half of all juvenile crime takes place between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Dodd is the author of an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) which would increase funding for after-school programs. He also co-authored a bipartisan proposal to re-authorize the Safe and Drug Free Schools initiative, which provides funding to prevent violence in schools.





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