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Illustration of data protection(Shutterstock.com/Boiko Y) Last year was a banner year for the exposure of personal information, and the lesson learned is that Indonesia needs to adopt a privacy law this year. The series of cyberattacks on state institutions, from website defacements to data breaches, happened during the coronavirus pandemic when people relied more on digital technology but wi...

State Capitol in Springfield SPRINGFIELD – Minimum wage workers in Illinois will see a boost in their hourly pay to $12 per hour starting Jan. 1, while tenants in affordable housing units will be allowed to keep pets. Those are just some of the more than 300 new laws that take effect in the new year. The minimum wage increase is actually the result of a 2019 law that phases in a state minimum...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Starting this year, patients won’t have to expect an unexpected medical bill. A new law went into effect New Year’s Day preventing patients from receiving surprise medical bills. Story continues below The provisions of the law state patients with insurance won’t receive bills following emergency care from an out-of-network doctor or facility. Patients will still need to pa...

An Illinois law aimed at ending federal immigration detention in the New Year has hit another legal snag, delaying a change immigrant rights activists had celebrated as historic. Local governments in Illinois cannot enter into new federal agreements allowing jails to house immigrant detainees and must end old ones in 2022 under the law signed in August by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Other states incl...

By Sam Shriver - [email protected] Jeff Jacomet, left, and Tom Holycross are concerned over legislation pending in the Ohio Legislature that could affect current concealed carry laws. LIMA — The Republican-controlled Ohio Legislature gave gun owners a bit of a Christmas present in November and December by passing two pieces of legislation that eased some laws concerning concealed carry permi...

The pro-democracy Progressive Movement is launching a sign-up campaign in April aimed at reforming a power decentralisation law it calls "backwards". Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, secretary-general of the Progressive Movement, said the campaign will be underway from April 1–June 30. If more than 100,000 people show support for decentralisation by signing up, a motion will be raised in parliament to...

COLUMBUS — After hearing difficult testimony about how some nursing-home residents have been mistreated, neglected and abused, state lawmakers have approved legislation requiring nursing homes to allow families of residents to install video cameras in their rooms, as long as the residents and roommates approve. The full House and Senate approved Senate Bill 58, known as Esther's Law, without ...

LONOKE COUNTY, Ark. — Law enforcement is searching for a man in connection to a deadly Saturday night shooting in Lonoke County. Multiple law enforcement agencies are seeking Travis Tacker, who is believed to have fled from the area. His whereabouts are unknown at the time of this report. Lonoke County deputies responded to a shooting just outside of Ward on Cocklebur Road, near McWhorter Lan...

ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST: Unexpected medical bills from out-of-network providers have been an all too common reality for many Americans. Often they come after a visit to a hospital emergency room. But a new federal law that went into effect yesterday is meant to protect patients from these kinds of unwanted surprises. The legislation, approved by Congress more than a year ago, is called the No Su...