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Alfred Reynolds

Alfred Reynolds is a criminal justice and law professor running for Florida State Senate District 12. Originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he moved to Connecticut in 1993 and later earned degrees in criminal justice, law administration, international law, education and leadership, and chaplaincy.
His career spans the U.S. Army Reserve, Army National Guard, law enforcement, juvenile corrections and probation, academia, counseling, and international legal research. His research focuses on criminal justice reform, political violence, juvenile delinquency, and the use of child soldiers. He contributed to a 2007 international report, has written numerous legal articles, founded the Reynolds Institute of Criminology in Lagos, Nigeria, and published Child Soldiers: Victims and Aggressors in 2021.

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Criminal justice and policing

We need to change that mentality in our district by training our police officers to be compassionate and, at the same time, to willfully engage the members of the community to welcome and to trust the police as members of the same community who is willing, based on their oath, to protect and to serve them whenever it is necessary.

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We need our police officers and sheriff deputies to be more proactive and to be involved in the schools and our communities by setting-up educational programs so parents and family members could also be involved.

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Education

With the support of school leaders, we should be able to pass laws that will strengthen the power of the teachers in the classroom while helping the parents to take responsibility for the education of their children. We will increase funding for school programs that will impact on student learning; but, also, challenge school and district leaders to keep up-to-date a statistical data of their behavioral intervention of those children who are failing.

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Healthcare

Here, there is a need for more accessible and coordinated mental health services for the youth in particular.

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Housing

Thus, we want to make a difference in the lives of those people by making and supporting laws that will positively affect their livelihood. One example is rent control, which is a law that is passed only in three states in the whole United States of America: California, Oregon, and Washington. Why can't we do the same in Florida, which is a state where many retirees and seniors are preferring to move in, to live in and spend the rest of their lives with their love ones.

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Infrastructure and transportation

It is for this reason that we need an integrated transportation system with a rapid transit that could help the members of the community to be more active when they are being forced by the forces of nature to stop driving their personal vehicle.

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We need to build many more roads and maintain those roads that are no more practical to drive within our district, In fact, there are many parts in our district where only single lane roads can be accessible.

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As leaders and public servants, we should see the best for our district by willing to combine road constructions and public transportation in our long term public policy.

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