]> http://www.afscme1368.org/taxonomy/term/42/0 en http://www.afscme1368.org/node/215 <p>Reps. Ted Strickland (D-OH), Bart Stupak (D-MI), Harold Ford (D-TN) and Lincoln Davis (D-TN) introduced a bill in honor of Officer Wayne Morgan, Treasurer of AFSCME Local 2173, who was gunned down while transporting prison inmate George Hyatte from the main courthouse in Kingston, Tennessee, back to the Brushy Mountain Correction Complex in Petros, Tennessee. This bill, the Wayne &quot;Cotton&quot; Morgan Bulletproof Vest Act, would amend the federal program that makes matching grants to states for the purchase of bulletproof vest for public safety officers, to eliminate the requirement for state matching funds. There would be no matching requirement to the extent that the grant is for the purchase of an armor vest for any officer who works in a high security risk area or for a correctional officer who transports prisoners as Officer Morgan did. Please ask your representative to cosponsor this important legislation. <a href="http://www.capwiz.com/afscme/issues/alert/?alertid=8322631&amp;type=CO">Send an email today</a>!</p> ASFCME Corrections Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:29:29 -0400