![]() ![]() “I was not only forced with violence to sell my body, but I was also forced to sometimes carry and sell drugs,” said Sharifa Abdullah, founding member of the Advisory Board for The Legal Aid Society’s Exploitation Intervention Project. Section 7 of the new bill will expand the vacatur statute to include any charges. The current Human Trafficking statute allows for victims to vacate prostitution charges. The bill, HB 6657, an Act Concerning Human Trafficking, was referred to the Judiciary Committee on March 18. ![]() Ninety different individuals and organizations submitted written testimony or testified Wednesday before the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee in support of a bill to allow victims of sex trafficking to vacate charges accumulated as a result of being trafficked. ![]() Hartford State’s Attorney Sharmese Walcott testifies Wednesday, March 24, 2021, before the Judiciary Committee on HB 6657, An Act Concerning Human Trafficking. Trackbill: Search Legislation Nationwide.Become A Press Patron! Open dropdown menu.We shall be good stewards of the land we all call Quinnentucket, Connecticut. We recognize the continued presence of Indigenous people on this territory who have survived attempted genocide, and who still hold ties to the land spiritually and culturally. We thank them for stewarding this land throughout generations. We pay our respect to the Indigenous people who are no longer here due to colonization, forced relocation, disease, and warfare. Buttrick (former Board Secretary of CFPA) was stationed and was the forester that designed and built the loop trail around Burr Pond.ĬFPA acknowledges we are on the traditional lands of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, the Mohegans, the Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Nipmuc, and Niantic peoples. ![]() On May 24, 1933, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was located in the Paugnut State Forest (at what is now known as Burr Pond State Park) and was named in honor of the Senator. Walcott served as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Conservation of Wildlife Resources and supported the newly formed Civilian Conservation Corps. Under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sen. Walcott became the President of the Connecticut Board of Fisheries and Game (1923-1928), Chairman of the Connecticut Water Commission (1925-1928), and was then elected to the United States Senate where he served from 1929 to 1935. In 1913, Walcott and Childs convinced the newly formed State Park Commission to purchase 15,000 acres of “woods, lakes, and mountains for the purpose of reclaiming deforested land and preserving game” In 1909, Walcott started what is now known as the Great Mountain Forest with fellow Yale University graduate, Starling W. The trail is named in honor of Senator Frederic C. The trail features Burr Mountain Brook, laurel-lined trail sections, and wonderful picnic spots. The area around Burr Pond abounds in hardwoods and hemlock with an understory of laurel and young striped maples and is studded with gigantic glacial boulders. The Walcott Trail circles Burr Pond in Burr Pond State Park and is linked to the John Muir Trail via the blue-white blazed Muir/ Walcott Connector at the southern end of the pond. Partners: Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP), Torrington Town Trails Trail Overview ![]()
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