Senator Brice Wiggins -Judges Bill

An amended version of a bill that has been the center of attention and controversy among leaders in Mississippi’s capital city has passed the Senate and been sent back to the House for further consideration.

During a Wednesday interview on The Gallo Show, Senator Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, explained that he and some of his Republican colleagues reached out to members of the Jackson delegation and the Black Caucus to restructure House Bill 1020.

The legislation initially served to enact a court system within the Capitol Complex Improvement District (CCID) that would operate separately from the Hinds County Court and expand the CCID to cover a larger land mass which would be under the exclusive jurisdiction of state-funded Capitol Police.