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Illinois Capitol SPRINGFIELD – An Illinois law, rarely enforced, allows parents to be charged with neglect if they leave children under the age of 14 home alone – even for a short time. State Rep. Sue Scherer, D-Decatur, says people want the law changed. She has filed House Bill 4305 to lower the home alone age in Illinois to 12, and she expects the bill will pass in the next few weeks. “I ha...

In total, 109 law enforcement agencies are receiving grants. CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine awarded more than $4.7 million in grant funding to 109 law enforcement agencies for expenses associated with launching or maintaining body-worn camera programs. “Body cameras have quickly become a necessary tool for modern policing,” DeWine said in a news release. “With these grants, more th...

The former City of Shreveport controller announced Monday at a press conference plans to sue the City for age and race discrimination, and said he suspects the nominated Chief Financial Officer has violated the law. S. Ben Hebert claims he was fired by Kasey Brown - the interim CFO who the City Council may vote in as permanent on Tuesday - just days after refusing to participate in financial...

(l-r) Jennifer Harris, Jennifer Graff and Suni Sreepada, with Ropes & Gray. Courtesy photos What You Need to Know As corporate demand continues into 2022, Ropes & Gray added three corporate and finance lawyers in New York and Los Angeles. The new hires come from White & Case, Debevoise & Plimpton and Milbank. One attorney joins the firm's nascent Los Angeles office, where t...

Capital Clicks Rep. Marti Anderson, D-Des Moines, spoke at a gathering to promote Marsy’s Law. (Photo by Katie Akin/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Liz Ford drove from Sioux City to Des Moines to tell the story of her late husband, Troy, and advocate for a constitutional amendment to protect the rights of crime victims. In 2015, Ford and her husband stopped to check on a man in a truck who appeared ...

"Members of the faith community should not have to worry about threats of violence at their place of worship," said Richard Collodi with the Houston FBI office. Law enforcement and faith groups have joined forces to form what Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg described as "a human shield" against hate crimes and terrorists. HOUSTON — When a terrorist took hostages at a North Texas synag...

What year is it anyway? Anyone else feel that 2020 and 2021 completely bled together as one crazy year? Yeah, me too. Giving into that blur-like feeling, I’m pausing a moment on this clean slate of a year — which is 2022 for anyone else still struggling — to recap some of my favorite Lauren’s Law moments from last year. January 2021 In “New Home, New Baby,” I shared how literal I took this se...

Last year, when Artemis Rayford was 12, he wrote a letter to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee concerned about a new state law that allows most adults to carry a gun legally without a permit. “I am a sixth-grader at Sherwood Middle School, and it is my opinion that this new law will be bad, and people will be murdered,” Artemis wrote the governor, according to Memphis station WREG. Tragically, Artemis ...

(Reuters) - New York should stop asking aspiring lawyers about their juvenile criminal records during the character and fitness review required for licensing, the New York State Bar Association said Monday. Forcing law students to disclose information about sealed criminal records, juvenile delinquency, dismissed cases and non-pending arrests that didn’t lead to a conviction — which is covere...

Keypoint: This week lawmakers introduced new bills in Mississippi, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania, held hearings in Alaska and Washington, and scheduled hearings for the coming week in Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, and Washington. Below is our second weekly update on proposed state privacy laws. As with past updates, we track the status of proposed CCPA-like privacy legislation. In additio...