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Credit: Charles Maldonado / The Lens The New Orleans City Council approved a new set of laws on Thursday that will allow the New Orleans Police Department to deputize some city employees to issue municipal court citations for certain quality-of-life violations. Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration, which crafted the ordinances, argued the new powers will facilitate more effective enforcemen...

FAYETTE COUNTY, WV (WVNS)– We recently introduced you to Dave Taylor and the Fayette County LEAD Program, a new initiative that offers low-level drug offenders treatment over incarceration. Now, we meet some of the officers involved in the program. The Fayette County LEAD program started in Montgomery, offering treatment over jail time to repeat low-level drug offenders as a way to combat the...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A convicted felon who broke the law gathering voter signatures in another state is now doing the same work here in Florida, 8 On Your Side has learned. Shawn Wilmoth pled guilty to two counts of election fraud in 2011. He is not accused of any wrong-doing in Florida. But considering his past, a tipster reached out with concerns about his current role helping collect signa...

Timothy Gannon, former Brooklyn Center police chief, testifies in the trial of former officer Kim Potter at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn., on Thursday Dec.16, 2021. (Court TV, via AP, Pool) MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — Defense attorneys for Kim Potter, the white former police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright in a northern Twin Cities suburb in April...

A growing number of Black women in law enforcement are calling out their own agencies for fostering toxic workplace environments. News4’s Cory Smith looks at what’s driving them to speak out now and why their push for reform echoes calls for change coming from the streets.

A Texas individual working in the investment advisory industry has filed suit against a Fort Collins law firm claiming that the firm fraudulently deprived him of his share of an insurance settlement. Jason Pinson, who lists Mansfield, Texas, as his residence, has sued Hadfield, Stieben & Doutt LLC and attorneys Gordon Hadfield and Sara Stieben in the case filed Tuesday in Larimer County D...

LAREDO, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents, with the assistance of Air and Marine Operations - Laredo Air Branch and Webb County Constable Precinct 2 deputies, discovered a stash house and apprehended multiple undocumented individuals several blocks away from Zachary Elementary School. The incident occurred on Dec. 15, when law enforcement officers responded to suspicious activity at ...

TULSA, Oklahoma - Law enforcement officers from all over the state want people to remember the nearly 80 lives lost to drunk driving in Tulsa County in the past four years. The "Tree of Life" at Woodland Hills Mall and the 79 presents underneath represent the lives lost to drunk driving over the past four years. One mother said her life will never be the same after her daughter died in 2018....

2021 began with a spring term of hybrid learning due to the ongoing pandemic, but culminated with a fall semester that saw the Yale Law School community once again living, learning, and working together under the same roof. Whether remote or in-person, faculty scholarship and the work of Law School clinics and centers continued to influence national conversations, policy, and impact the lives...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) — A veteran-owned Coral Gables law firm built a practice based on government contracts, and then the bottom fell out due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Gilchrist Law Firm-Coral Gables struggled, but with some help they are doing well once again. The firm manages a number of federal, state, and local government contracts. It was the mainstay of their practice, a transition b...