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Edward Woodward, left, and his wife, Bessie Woodward, right, hold a framed photo collage of their son, Lyle Woodward, June 26, 2019 in San Diego, California who died while in San Diego County Jail. With 185 deaths in the past 15 years, San Diego County jails are so unsafe and deficient that state lawmakers should intervene by forcing the Sheriff’s Department to change course, the Californi...

On January 20, Latvia passed into national law a whistleblower law, in accordance with the October 2019 European Union whistleblowing directive. Whistleblower advocates are praising the Latvian law because it includes protections specifically for climate whistleblowers. The EU whistleblowing directive was passed on October 23, 2019. It mandates that every EU Member State must implement a whis...

From media outlets, punk activists, journalists to human rights defenders and even ordinary citizens — dozens of people have been ensnared by Russia’s law on foreign agents. What exactly does the legislation entail? Supporters of Memorial, one of Russia's oldest rights groups that was declared a foreign agent, last December Russia's foreign agent law dates back to 2012 when it originally appl...

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law a measure that requires Pennsylvania's law enforcement to submit DNA information to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) in all missing person cases. It becomes the 12th state to have this requirement. File/Joe Hermitt | [email protected] HAR Pennsylvania now has a law in that will give future families of loved ones who go missing ...

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- After a three-year-long effort, Fort Bend County unveiled its new body-worn cameras for law enforcement officers on Thursday. The county teamed up with technology company Axon to supply hundreds of bodycams to peace officers across the county, in addition to fleet cameras for vehicles and new tasers. "We're all coming together with the same goals. Transparenc...

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo with then New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams in Washington on July 12, after attending a meeting with President Joe Biden about reducing gun violence. This is Sam Liccardo’s last year as mayor of San Jose, California, and one of the things he wanted to get done before leaving office is pass a few ordinances around guns. He’s really leaned in. First, San Jos...

A cultural trope exists that police officers are often out-of-shape doughnut-loving public servants. The kinds of characters you may have chuckled at in movies like RoboCop 3 and Die Hard, or animated shows like The Simpsons, and the literal doughnut that is a police sheriff on The Amazing World of Gumball. However, real-life law enforcement has to maintain their physical fitness for the rigo...

Austria is the first Western democracy to mandate Covid vaccinations for nearly its entire adult population, a once-unthinkable move that is being seen as a test case for other countries grappling with pockets of vaccine resistance. The sweeping measure, which easily cleared its final parliamentary hurdle on Thursday when it was approved by lawmakers in Austria’s upper house, will be signed i...

Image Credit: Rost-9D/Getty As international supply chains experience massive disruptions, Murphy’s Law feels appropriate with its adage: “anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” This is a modal window. No compatible source was found for this media. Beyond the regular costs attributed to manual workflows, extended payment delays, disputes, complicated reconciliation processes and informat...

Across the U.S., educators are being censored for broaching controversial topics. Since January 2021, researcher Jeffrey Sachs says, 35 states have introduced 137 bills limiting what schools can teach with regard to race, American history, politics, sexual orientation and gender identity. Sachs has been tracking this legislation for PEN America, a writers organization dedicated to free speech...