PITTSFIELD — A former Miss Hall’s School teacher who has been accused by five alumnae of sexual abuse while they were students cannot be prosecuted because the women were over the age of 16 when the ...
Rep. Andrew Gray, D-Anchorage, speaks in favor of House Bill 62 on Friday, May 16, 2025. The Alaska Legislature is on pace to raise the state’s age of sexual consent to 18 next year, after the state ...
A bill to raise the age of consent is working its way through the Oklahoma legislature, and local child advocates expressed on Wednesday that it is a step in the right direction. Senate Bill 445 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A bill to raise ...
A Berkshire County legislator’s effort to close an age of consent loophole in Massachusetts has taken a step forward in the state house. After news broke of sexual predation against students at the ...
PITTSFIELD — The City Council backed another measure to safeguard children from sexual abuse. On Tuesday, the council unanimously supported H.1634, which closes a loophole in the state’s statutory ...
Two basically identical bills that would raise the age, from 14 to 18, at which people can make their own medical decisions moved through the Alabama Senate Committee on Children and Youth Health on ...
Alaskans ages 16 and 17 would be able to consent to talk therapy under a bill introduced in the state Senate in February that would lower the age of consent from 18. A parent or guardian would still ...