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Hazel Crest Police Chief Mitchell Davis III talks with the House Public Safety and Violence Prevention Task Force on January 21, 2022. SPRINGFIELD (WGEM) - Law enforcement leaders from across Illinois had the opportunity to talk about their ideas to address public safety and violence prevention with state lawmakers Friday. The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police told a special House task...

The city Board of Elections is asking the state for "guidance, instruction and/or opinion" on its new law allowing legal non-citizens to vote. The city Board of Elections wants the state to “review” whether the Big Apple’s controversial new non-citizen voting law is legal. The new law is currently being challenged in court. “The city board respectfully requests a review for the attached local...

This is a modal window. No compatible source was found for this media. This video is currently unavailable. An unprecedented situation in Helena is how the police are describing a recent uptick in calls for people who have overdosed. GREAT FALLS, Mont. - An unprecedented situation in Helena is how the police are describing a recent uptick in calls for people who have overdosed. It's a hu...

The Houston Chronicle and The Dallas Morning News Attorney General Ken Paxton denied Friday that he violated the state’s open records law, rejecting allegations by a Travis County prosecutor that his office should release communications from the week of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Paxton had given a speech at a pro-Trump rally just hours before the violence erupted in Washington, but his offi...

When Lyndon McLeod texted photos of a flamethrower and asked her to leave New Orleans and join him in Denver, Amanda Knight wrote “haha.” Days later, on Dec. 29, 2020, his texts were more insistent. “It’s like nobody takes one word I say seriously…which I suppose I deserve…For we get what we deserve in life, eh? But it is strange to be completely serious and still have people think I’m joking...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie essentially says he wants to wait to see if many people are killed by defendants freed without bail before considering improvements. State budget negotiations are now underway, with an April 1 deadline. Since Gov. Kathy Hochul’s advantage is at a maximum in the talks that result in the “Big Ugly” set of bills, New Yorkers need her to insist on a measure that prop...

Focus The Biden administration is moving to tighten oversight of projects that benefited from a narrowed interpretation of the scope of Clean Water Act jurisdiction adopted by the Trump administration, but some projects, including a controversial proposed titanium mine in Georgia, will probably escape scrutiny under the Biden administration’s broader jurisdictional interpretation. In a ...

UC Merced’s Director of Pre-Law Studies Mark Harris is taking on a new position to help address racism at Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD). Officials for the school district created a new position for Harris as district liaison to provide independent recommendations to the district on investigations and racist incidents. “I grew up choking on the smoke from the original Watts r...

2022 has several changes in store for employment law. We outline the top 10 of the most important changes in our Insight. 1. Special regulations on COVID-19 in 2022 The so-called "Corona bonus" of EUR 1,500.00, which can be granted tax-free in the form of allowances and benefits in kind, can still be paid out by employers until March 2022. The prerequisite remains that the corona bonus is pa...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — One-third of fatal crashes nationwide involve speeding, a statistic that is prompting law enforcement in Las Vegas to crack down on aggressive drivers and speeders. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is joining forces to increase high-visibility patrols from Jan. 24 through Feb. 6 and crackdown on motorists exceeding the speed limit. Exceeding the speed limit is o...