Hamden – After touring the Hamden Police Department’s Detective Division today, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) announced he will reintroduce legislation that would increase the number of tools available to law enforcement in investigating cases involving missing and exploited children and strengthen laws surrounding sex offender registration.

“In recent months, the headlines have been inundated with news about missing children,” said Dodd, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Education and Early Childhood Development. “ Our nation needs to do everything in its power to protect our children and keep them safe. This bill adds to our arsenal of ways to fight these crimes.”

Plans to Reintroduce Measure to Reform No Child Left Behind Initiative

Hartford – Standing with teachers and school administrators, Senator Chris Dodd today announced that he will reintroduce an initiative to help Connecticut and other states successfully implement and improve the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. This law, which was signed into law by President Bush three years ago to ensure that teachers and students were held to higher accountability standards, has been greatly underfunded and implemented inflexibly by the Bush Administration.