Avery Kreemer

1 day ago | daytondailynews.com | Avery Kreemer

Other states that have passed similar legislation have seen popular sites like PornHub suspend service within state borders. The House-passed provision was folded into the chamber’s draft of the state’s operating budget, which sets about $60 billion in state spending over the next two years and includes hundreds of separate legislative provisions.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Avery Kreemer

Apr. 18—A federal court permanently blocked an Ohio law that would have required TikTok, YouTube, Twitch and a wide array of online content platforms to block users under the age of 16 unless they had parental consent. The law would have, among other things, given parents the absolute power to force the platform to delete their child's account. Platforms also would have been required to delete the account of users under 16 at a parent's behest.

6 days ago | daytondailynews.com | Avery Kreemer

While the law was aimed at social media operators like Meta, TikTok and X, its definition of a social media operator was likely to have lumped in a broad swath of online content platforms. In a January ruling pausing enforcement of the bill, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Chief Judge Algenon L.

1 week ago | journal-news.com | Avery Kreemer

Ingram was joined by co-chair Sen. Paula Hicks Hudson, a Toledo Democrat who will be the party’s top budget negotiator when the Senate picks up the budget later this month. The two used a statehouse press conference to cap off their inaugural Black Maternal Health Summit, aimed in large part at addressing the disparities between infant and maternal health outcomes between white and Black families.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Avery Kreemer

Apr. 17—Ahead of the Ohio Senate's deliberations on the state budget, chamber Democrats and Black health advocates are encouraging the state to "put your money where your mouth is" during this budget cycle. "We talk a whole lot about caring about families, caring about children, teaching them how to read — but they gotta live before they can start to read," said state Sen. Catherine Ingram, D-Cincinnati, joint chair of the Ohio legislature's Black Maternal Health Caucus.