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Officers from five North Carolina law enforcement agencies are better equipped to respond to people experiencing a behavioral health crisis following a 40-hour training in Hendersonville earlier this month at Blue Ridge Community College. Six participants completed Crisis Intervention Team training coordinated by Vaya Health April 4-8 at the community college. Graduates were: Blue Ridge Comm...

What you need to know about edibles in New Jersey. Edibles aren't yet legal in New Jersey, here's why. New Jersey voters called for marijuana legalization in 2020, and now the government officially signed off on the start of legal recreational cannabis sales for adults. You are now able to buy cannabis flower, concentrate, ingestible forms of cannabis that aren’t food, and drops or syrups. Bu...

Notre Dame Law School is hosting three international law professors this semester. Visiting Professors Luigi Crema and Francisco J. Urbina, as well as Fulbright Visiting Professor Tamás Ádány, are teaching courses in international and comparative law. Luigi Crema is professor of international law at the Law School of the Università degli Studi of Milan. He graduated summa cum laude from the U...

Voices for Children, Erica Hammel with her son, Wyatt, ahead of surgery in January 2022. (Courtesy - Erica Hammel, WWMT, WEYI).png FLINT, Mich. - Wyatt's Law has now passed both chambers at the State Capitol, and now awaits Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s signature. If she signs, local child advocacy groups say it will be a significant win for the state. Voices for Children President and CEO Ny...

Foreign Correspondent’s Club’s decision sparks outrage from journalists and resignations from press freedom committee Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondent’s Club has scrapped its annual human rights press awards just days before it was due to announce winners, out of fear it would violate the city’s wide-ranging national security law. The decision sparked a number of resignations from the club’s...

FLORENCE, S.C. (WMBF) – Florence city and county leaders are calling for the community to work together and work with law enforcement after a weekend of shootings took the lives of four people, including an 11-year-old. Florence Mayor Ervin, Florence Police Chief Allen Heidler and Florence County Sheriff’s Maj. Mike Nunn made statements on Monday morning, all with the same message that the co...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Danny Hand Foundation is reminding people to slow down and move over ahead of Memorial Day and summer vacations. Florida law requires drivers to “Move Over” a lane when they see emergency lights, whether it’s for law enforcement, an ambulance, or even a tow truck. If a driver can’t move over, they must slow down to 20 miles per hour below the posted speed limit. There...

In a field long dominated by the old guard, it can be hard for diverse attorneys to get a foot in the door, land opportunities, find their place among colleagues, and climb the ranks. Here’s why—and how—that needs to change. Now perhaps more than ever, industries are redoubling their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts to address entrenched imbalances in hiring, retention and advan...

Keypoint: This week the Connecticut Senate passed a consumer data privacy bill. Below is our fifteenth weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2022. We regularly update our 2022 State Privacy Law Tracker to keep pace with the latest developments with CCPA-like privacy bills. Table of Contents What’s New? Upcoming Hearings CCPA-Like Privacy Bills VCDPA Amendments ...

Associated Press Mississippi will become the final state with a law requiring equal pay for equal work by women and men. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed House Bill 770 on Wednesday, and it will become law July 1. More:Making employers share pay in job postings could narrow gender wage gap, advocates say A 1963 federal law requires equal pay for equal work, but Mississippi has the only sta...