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Wake sheriff's office creates unit to reduce crashes Raleigh, N.C. — Local law enforcement agencies are making good on their promises to crack down on reckless driving and speeding. A number of agencies have said reckless driving and speeding became more common during the pandemic, so they have upped enforcement. The number of traffic citations issued by the Wake County Sheriff’s Office this ...

A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled Thursday the school board violated state open meeting laws when it passed a resolution in February ending merit-based admissions at Lowell High School. (Kevin N. Hume/The Examiner) A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled Thursday The City’s school board violated state open meeting laws when it passed a resolution in February ending merit-based adm...

Hermosa, Spearfish law enforcement officers have certifications revoked by state  Rapid City Journal

Pandemic claiming an alarming number of law enforcement officer lives  WKOW

Credit: Natalie Williams / BDN PORTLAND — Law enforcement agencies statewide are struggling to find staff and say they are at a critical point. From Kittery to Caribou, police departments are short-staffed and officers are burned out. “It’s a tough job,” Gardiner Police Chief James Toman said. “It’s a tough job. It doesn’t seem to be as glorious as perhaps it once was.” Toman said they’ve bee...

ATLANTA, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cars started lining up at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church campus as early as 2 a.m. on Wednesday morning. By 6 a.m., the line was near capacity, which prompted Amy Witherite, founder of Witherite Law Group and 1-800-TruckWreck, to double the support for its annual holiday giveaway event, a week ahead of Thanksgiving. Thousands of metro Atlanta fa...

Former Rep. Dennis Smith presents his Real ID bill during a House committee hearing in 2017. Smith, now a Republican candidate for attorney general, faces discipline from the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board. A Republican candidate for Minnesota attorney general faces a law license suspension of 30 days and additional scrutiny over his dealings with a client. Dennis Smith h...

We have previously reported on the new law that became effective this past summer in Washington requiring TPAs that administer self-funded workers compensation to become licensed with the Washington Department of Labor. However, Washington has enacted another law governing Health Care Benefit Managers (“HCBMs”), effective January 1, 2022, codified at Wash. Rev. Code §§ 48.200.010 et seq. The ...

RVs line up along Eighth and Harrison streets in Berkeley. Credit: Pete Rosos After two-plus years in the same location, Berkeley Friends on Wheels — a community of houseless people who live in vehicles — are being forced to move along. In early October, city of Berkeley employees chalked the tires of all of the vehicles parked on the corner of Eighth and Harrison streets in West Berkeley, wh...

Subscription services face increased scrutiny from regulators, lawmakers and the plaintiffs’ bar. As we highlighted in a recent client alert, the FTC warned companies against using “dark patterns” in connection with paid subscriptions. In 2022, California’s Automatic Renewal Law (ARL)—one of the most robust statutes of its kind—will place even stricter requirements on enrollment in (and cance...