Sep 13, 2023 · Seymour said ACT would ensure tougher sentences for serious crimes, increase the capacity of the prison system and put victims back in the centre of the justice system. The policies promised to disqualify gang members from holding a firearms licence, and impose tougher sentences for crimes on vulnerable workers.

3 days ago · ACT leader David Seymour is standing by his party's response to a warning its former president was a sexual predator. Ex-president Tim Jago sexually abused two teenage boys he knew through a sports club in mid to late 1990s. He was convicted of eight charges of indecent assault last year and was ...

Jan 30, 2025 · David Seymour is defending new school lunches that some students are comparing to prison food. While visiting an Auckland high school to see the results of his reworked school lunch programme, the Associate Education Minister apologised for late deliveries to a number of schools that had left kids hungry.

Aug 10, 2023 · It's part of a new justice policy released by the party today. ACT leader David Seymour said "being nice to criminals" hadn't worked and the justice system needed to "start putting victims first". He said that meant ensuring appropriate sentences for offenders that would keep communities safe".

3 days ago · ACT leader David Seymour stands by the party’s response to warnings about ex-President Tim Jago. ... currently in jail serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence, plans on appealing his convictions ...

May 22, 2023 · “The epidemic of youth crime has gotten to the point where New Zealand’s news headlines could be straight out of the L.A. Times – ram raids, stabbing threats, brazen robberies. It’s past time for youth offenders to start facing real …

May 8, 2023 · In an election year tough on crime policy announcement, ACT leader David Seymour revealed to 1News his party would spend more than $1 billion to ensure more offenders are sent to prison if in power. "Labour's experiment of letting criminals out to see what happens has clearly failed," Seymour said.

Associate Education Minister David Seymour says there will be no more teacher-only days during term time and schools will need to implement a truancy plan to tackle what the Act leader calls...

Oct 23, 2024 · So now we can say to those serious sexual and violent offenders, "Your previous strikes will count under the new law.", and the Duncan Webbs of the world will say, "Oh, there will be more people in jail."

The Government has a dilemma: build more prisons or make it easier for prisoners to be released. ACT believes we should be smart on crime, here's our...