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BOYNTON BEACH — One month after a 13-year-old boy crashed his dirt bike and died while a police officer chased him, the public is left with a mystery: Who was the Boynton Beach Police officer? Stanley Dale Davis III’s family and friends have filled the city commission chamber at meetings since his death on Dec. 26 to speak about him publicly, his name on signs and shirts for all to see.

A New Law Threatens to Strangle Civil Society in Thailand, and Beyond | Opinion  Newsweek

EDITORIAL: Enforce the law that forbids school segregation  Colorado Springs Gazette

A woman who went to Planned Parenthood’s El Paso Health Center in Texas seeking an abortion early this month told the center’s workers she had been raped. They turned her down. She was too far along into her pregnancy under the state's new abortion law, Miranda Aguirre, the health center's manager, told NBC News. Had the staff performed the abortion, the clinic would have run afoul of the law...

The Bartlesville Police Department has opened enrollment for three training classes it is hosting in the coming months for local and area law enforcement agencies. Taught by the Public Agency Training Council (PATC), the classes will each focus on a different subject as it pertains to law enforcement. The first class, held April 18-20, will cost $350 to attend and will cover handling cases ...

Legislation creating clearinghouse for Illinois veterans' complaints becomes law without Pritzker's signature  Bloomington Pantagraph

PARIS (AP) — France has a new law that bans so-called conversion therapiesand authorizes jail time and fines for practitioners who use the scientifically discredited practice to attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ people. The National Assembly approved the new law unanimously, voting 142-0 on Tuesday evening. The legislation includes criminal penalties for peo...

USA TODAY NETWORK Government officials sometimes pass laws or regulations that are illegal or unconstitutional. Citizens can sue to try to get the courts to order the officials to obey the constitution and laws. But lawsuits are expensive, and without a lawsuit, illegal or unconstitutional acts can continue. Question: I think my City Council is breaking the law. What can I do about it? Sh...

Police tape on Denver's 16th Street Mall. Three years ago, state lawmakers tried to significantly boost the penalty for law enforcement officers who are untruthful on the job: Not only would they be fired, they were supposed to lose their license too. But a year and a half after the bill was implemented, two of the state’s largest police departments haven’t been routinely reporting untruthful...

Second in a four-part series State-level efforts to help victims of “forever chemical” exposure get compensation have met resistance from both governments and industry — and this pushback has been particularly effective in Republican-led states. In Vermont, an official in the governor’s office coordinated with a lobbyist in “watering down” a bill that aimed to make polluters pay for health sc...