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Maura Healey: “The message today is you engage in that behavior, you engage…”

Featuring: Maura Healey, Democratic | Governor of Massachusetts

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Governor Healey Hosting Ceremonial Signing for New Laws Protecting Sexual Assault Survivors

Published | Video Starts at 05:52

Listening to Melissa and Hillary describe what happened to them as students was infuriating. A classroom, by way of example, should be a place where students, our young people, feel safe, feel supported. The message today is you engage in that behavior, you engage in that conduct, it's criminal. And if you are overseeing through administration and not doing your job and falling down on the job in the face of that abuse, knowing what is going on or having an idea of what is going on, that's over in Massachusetts today. (05:52–06:00)

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