UPDATE: Del. AG calls for drug, gun law revisions

— some leaders — like attorney general matt denn being one of them – are already proposing changes. in particular — laws on illegal gun possession and drugs. 47abc’s lili zheng reports. track 1 overly complicated — and cumbersome. words — used by attorney general matt denn — to describe delaware’s existing drug laws. our drug laws also don’t focus sufficient resources on substance abuse treatment for inmates while they are incarcerated or for defendants who are getting treatment in lieu of being incarcerated track 2 at a press conference monday — attorney general denn announced his office’s plans of working with legislators and law enforcement officials to create a specific reform proposal for the general assembly to consider in its upcoming session. an example — he wants to stop imposing harder sentences for drug crimes — that involve the use of a car. denn says he’d like to address the misconception that delaware has a high incarceration rate for drug crimes — which can be hard to do because accurate numbers from delaware’s state prisons are notoriously difficult to come by. we estimated that about five percent of delaware’s state prison population was there because of mandatory sentences related to drug charges and that’s not exactly an apples to apples comparison, because that’s people who are there under mandatory sentences as opposed to sentences where a judge may impose at his or her discretion track 3 also a priority in the next session — eliminating what denn calls a loophole in terms of illegal gun possession. according the department of justice — young adults who violate their ban from possessing guns because of a violent felony — face no mandatory jail sentence. it’s a relatively small number of people who it impacts but those people are people who are carrying guns and who have a violent felony history in the recent past, so there are people who are of significant concern for us track 4 lili zheng, 47abc according to denn — the illegal gun possession bill you just heard about — was initially proposed two years ago. for more background on this proposal — head to our website — 47 a-b-c dot com. in dover — police arrested and charged three adults and a 15-year-old with