The website allows the public to submit testimony on several ideas being considered in the wake of the Newtown school shooting.

The 52-member task force was convened in the wake of the Dec. 14 rampage left 20 first graders and six educators dead. Sandy Hook Elementary School had recently implemented new safety protocols before the massacre.

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Information on four public hearings scheduled through the end of the month is available on the website, along with a link to submit testimony.

Testimony can also be submitted in person and will be made available for public review on the website.

State lawmakers hope to take action on a package of legislative changes before the end of February.

Gov. Dannel Malloy also launched a 16-member bipartisan Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, tasked with recommending possible safety changes to state laws and policies.

A coalition of Connecticut mayors and first selectmen has also come together to make recommendations to clamp down on gun violence.

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Gigi Barnett explains the plans to address the concerns.

Pit bull owners say the ruling amounts to discrimination against their pets but victims say they just want more protection against the breed. Now, it’s time for lawmakers to weigh in.

Maryland’s highest court ruled that pit bulls and pit bull mixes are “inherently dangerous.”

The decision came last month. But dog owners soon fired back rallying on the State House steps calling their pets “harmless.”

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“A lot of them are just so sweet,” one pit bull owner said.

Now, state lawmakers are adding to the debate with a bipartisan task force designed to weigh the consequences of the court’s decision and what it means for owners, victims and, ultimately, pit bulls.

“What I’m seeing right now is the shelters are overrun with pit bulls,” Sen. Lisa Gladden, D-Baltimore City, said.

Gladden is on the task force. She says they’ll look at everything including what other states are doing to reign in pit bulls.

“In some counties in Florida, they outlaw the ownership of pit bulls. I think that’s too much. But, I think the owners– if they love their dogs– they would take any kind of training class,” she said.

Under the court’s ruling, dog owners are much more liable if their pit bulls attack. That’s because a victim doesn’t need to prove that the dog has bitten before.

Delegate Curt Anderson (D-Baltimore City), who is also on the 10-member panel, says the ruling is causing some landlords to evict pit bull owners and he’s concerned where that leaves the dogs.

“Thousands of pit bulls may be put to sleep because of this ruling, so we’ve got to come up with a decision because it’s important to a very large segment of people who live in the state of Maryland,” he said.

Lawmakers have tried before to create laws that would address the court’s ruling. Meanwhile, the special panel says it will wrap up its work before the special session on July 9.

Three of the five delegates on the task force introduced bills during this month’s special session to overturn the court’s decision.

A bipartisan task force will recommend today that the United States overhaul its immigration system in response to national security concerns, saying that the country should end strict quotas on work-based immigrant visas to maintain its scientific, technological and military edge.

“The continued failure to devise and implement a sound and sustainable immigration policy threatens to weaken America’s economy, to jeopardize its diplomacy, and to imperil its national security,” concluded an independent Council on Foreign Relations panel, co-chaired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) and former Clinton White House chief of staff Thomas V. “Mack” McLarty III.

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