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On November 8, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill requiring employers to provide written notice to and obtain employee acknowledgments from new hires before they may engage in electronic monitoring of their employees. New York joins Connecticut and Delaware as the only states with such a requirement. The law, which amends the New York Civil Rights Law and becomes effe...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee on Wednesday halted dozens of exemptions that allowed businesses and public entities to require people to take COVID-19 preventive measures in spite of a state law severely limiting them, citing court rulings that blocked some of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates. State Comptroller Jason Mumpower’s announcement — at least for now — strips away protection...

A bill named in memory of a soldier who was stationed at Fort Leavenworth has been signed into law, according to a news release from U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran's office. The Col. John M. McHugh Tuition Fairness for Survivors Act was signed into law Tuesday. The law expands in-state tuition eligibility for the families of certain military service members who died while on active duty and veterans ...

The controversial preservation act has led to an increase in complaints from small law enforcement offices. (Marc Piscotty/Getty Images) Rates of gun violence have spiked across Missouri, including in areas around UM System schools. Near the UM System’s Columbia campus alone, there have been four shootings since the beginning of August. The most recent incident, on Nov. 14, left one person de...

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Testing for law enforcement officer training available starting Dec. 15  The Bakersfield Californian

The state Board of Regents and a coalition of students, faculty and labor groups are suing the overturn several laws affecting the U-System, including ones requiring guns to be allowed on campus and restricting transgender athletes. HELENA — A state district judge in Helena has ruled against a new state law that sought to prohibit the state Board of Regents from banning firearms on state coll...

(Image via Getty) Sad news from Encino, California, where an adjunct professor at USC Gould School of Law and Pepperdine Law, Dennis Franks, passed away Sunday night after an ancient tree — estimated as at least 500 years old and weighing 100,000 pounds — fell on his home. Franks previously worked in-house at Twentieth Century Fox and The Walt Disney Corporation. Before moving in-house, Frank...

iStock.com/ASphotowed U.S. residents' support of stricter gun control has fallen five percentage points this year to 52%, the lowest since 2014. However, 35% of adults think laws covering the sale of firearms should remain the same and 11% favor less strict laws, according to a report by Gallup. Since 1990, calls for stricter gun control have spiked in the wake of prominent mass shootings but...

Tractor trailers and other large commercial vehicles travel the highways and our local roads daily to deliver consumer goods around the country. With so many trucks, including 18-wheelers, semis, flatbeds, dump trucks, and box trucks, on the roadways, accidents happen. Hundreds of thousands of large-truck crashes occur every year in the United States, with approximately 510,000 reported in 20...