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Civilian oversight boards for police are trendy in Iowa, with Cedar Rapids and Coralville among the cities installing new boards in the past year. However, communities looking to strengthen their oversight panels will run into barriers in state law. Officials in Iowa City - by far the first city in the state to establish a police review board of police, back in 1997 - recently discussed recom...

Split FTC Moves Ahead with Fines New Nectar Sleep consent order proves the Commish isn’t down for the count Perchance to Scheme? Nectar Sleep—the upstart mattress manufacturer and daughter company of Resident Home LLC—keeps popping up in this newsletter like a recurring...hmmm...we’re at a loss—is there a decent metaphor somewhere in this story? In 2019 we covered a controversy involving a Ne...

The data have exposed fissures that existed pre-COVID but have been exacerbated due to the pandemic. Now it is up to us to take to heart the data we have collected and analyzed. How can we make real change, the actual improvements that our students desperately need? This is the challenge we face ahead — Meera Deo, a Southwestern Law School professor who also serves as director of the Law Scho...

On Friday afternoon, the district released an email to parents regarding the presence of law enforcement at the school and said they were there to assist administration with the altercations. BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - Officials with the Berkeley County School District say law enforcement has responded to Berkeley High School following two student altercations. On Friday afternoon, the di...

I‘ve been to the Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas to play tennis several times, but had never known what food magic awaited on the inside of the hotel. The 5-star resort, located just 20 minutes northwest of downtown Dallas, offers two dining concepts on-site — Outlaw Taproom (for local beer, wine, cocktails, and small bites) and LAW Restaurant (which stands for land, air, a...

News The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that they "fully support TN State Representative Mark Hall’s proposal to make Tennessee’s Felony Assault on Law Enforcement K-9s the most aggressive law in the nation." Tennessee State Rep. Mark Hall (left) and Officer Ed Choate and his BCSO partner K-9 Joker at right. A proposed amendment named for the Bradly County Sheriff's O...

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Abortion access for women in Texas continues to be impacted by a state law, the Texas Heartbeat Act (S.B. 8), which effectively bans the procedure after six weeks. On November 1, the state’s legal team will defend the law at the U.S. Supreme Court as opponents ask the court for clearance to challenge the law in lower courts. The court will hear two cases. Experts say no...

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Abortion access for women in Texas continues to be impacted by a state law, the Texas Heartbeat Act (S.B. 8), which effectively bans the procedure after six weeks. On November 1, the state’s legal team will defend the law at the U.S. Supreme Court as opponents ask the court for clearance to challenge the law in lower courts. The court will hear two cases. Experts say no...

Gov. Eric Holcomb announced an outside review of Indiana law enforcement policies and training in the wake of protests following the murder of George Floyd. The head of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus said she’s pleased with the Holcomb administration’s response to a recently-released report on Indiana law enforcement policies and training. The third-party review, first announced by Gov....

The Cuyahoga County Diversion Center currently operates out of the Oriana House building on East 55th Street in Cleveland. CLEVELAND, Ohio— Cleveland police’s policy that requires officers to first get permission from a victim of a low-level, non-violent offense before they take someone with mental illness to get treatment instead of jail is “incorrect and inappropriate,” a statewide advocacy...