It is time to asses why these killings are happening, for what reason, and find new measures for diffusing these situations. Performing Psychiatric evaluations will be a good start as we will be able to find the root cause of these unlawful and unjustified killings.

Making Virginia a better place to live for everyone.

Hate, bigotry, ignorance, racism and anti-Semitism must be confronted everywhere it appears, especially when it comes from an elected government official.

I am starting this petition, because Council Member White's attitude of bigotry must not be tolerated from a DC Government legislator - or any official.

Given the St. Petersburg's Police Departments past history of killing an unarmed motorist and its recent controversial interaction with another citizen, they can not be trusted nor expected to monitor their own behavior without additional tools such as body cameras.

Over 400,000 children are currently being victimized by sex trafficking in the United States. At risk youth such as LGTBQ, runways, and foster youth are targets for this type of exploitation. Our youth should be protected in this country and not targeted and used to sex trafficking in our own backyard.

I am a student at Eastern Michigan University in the Masters of Social Work Program. I am starting this petition in support of Rep. Zempke's bill to end conversion therapy by mental health professionals in the state of Michigan. The bill was introduced on February 13th 2018 for the 3rd time. Conversion therapy has no scientific basis and has many potential risks for clients, including depression, anxiety, social isolation and self-destructive behavior. According to many in the mental health community, sexual orientation and expressions of gender identity occur naturally therefore, there is no reason sexual orientation needs to be changed especially with methods proven to be harmful. Please help support the LBGTQ community in our state.

Because I want to

Obtaining a Bachelors level education and climbing the ranks of employment for twenty years within New York City service had not prepared me for the battle legally to raise my son appropriately for the last six years due to his biological mother choosing to not be a custodial parent. Family courts referees, magistrates and judges need to discontinue their prejudices against men.

One in three of Trump's judicial nominees have an explicit anti-LGBT record and Mr. Giampietro is just the latest to get caught red-handed voicing his bigotry on air. This type of prejudice and bias have no place in our federal courts. The vitriolic and incendiary anti-LGBT rhetoric from Giampietro captured in the recordings, while shocking and disturbing, is unfortunately par for the course with respect to many of the judicial nominees coming out of this White House. In addition, Giampietro has made disturbing comments in blog posts about what he calls a "racial spoils system;" writing about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he claimed that "calls for diversity" are "code for relaxed standards." He has also said in interviews that he, "grew up next to lawyers, architects and crack dealers...The common denominator [he] saw was that the children who succeeded in Washington, [DC] were in private schools, and the children who turned out to be criminals were in public schools." Even if it is becoming commonplace, we must never accept this discriminatory and divisive as worthy of a federal judge.

Due to the current Georgia law, which states that the case is to stay in the County/State of the Noncustodial Parent, which is difficult when they up and leave without notification. My 8-year-old son's father is still using my previous address, where he has been gone from the home for over 4 years. The noncustodial parent should NOT fall more than 30-45 days behind in payment. It's hard being a single parent and the noncustodial parent neglects the child/children as if their needs are not important. Being a single mother, all the responsibility and financial duties fall solely on me. Its hard to tell my 8-year old I don't have funds to pay for him to participate in a sport or can't take him to bowling or determining whether to be late paying a bill so that I can purchase clothes that fit. Custodial parents don't have a day off; I am always on the clock as a SINGLE PARENT 365 days a year, at PTA meetings, dentist/doctor appointments, working to provide for us, cooking dinner, helping with homework, giving birthday parties, consoling him when he cries for his noncustodial parent, making ends meet with the help of the Good Lord on my side and answering our prayers.

Many voters choose to remain unaffiliated with a political party for various reasons. They consider themselves independent or may object to political parties in general or for specific reasons. These voters represent a substantial number of voters in the the state and should have a voice, in the party of their choice, in selecting candidates at party primaries. This would help assure that the state's political parties put forward strong candidates who are electable with the population of unaffiliated voters. It would also help strengthen the party system by attracting "no party" voters to vote in their primaries.