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October 21, 2021

West Palm Beach won't ID police involved in fatal shooting, saying officers invoked privacy rights - Palm Beach Post

WEST PALM BEACH — City police said this week they will not identify the three officers involved in the shooting death of a man early Sunday. The officers have invoked their rights under a 2018 state constitutional amendment that allows crime victims to remain anonymous, a department spokesperson said. Investigators said Allan Lorenzo Robb wielded a knife as the officers attempted to take hi...
October 21, 2021

AB5: An awful law that still needs to be repealed | Editorial - Chico Enterprise-Record

A panel of the Ninth United States Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a First Amendment challenge to Assembly Bill 5 brought by the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Press Photographers Association. The groups argued that AB 5’s restrictions on freelance writers and journalists constituted a violation of the impacted freelancers’ First Amendment rights because th...
October 21, 2021

A California law gave the people power to cut pollution. Why isn’t it working? - Grist

TV news crews, along with the curious, gather on a hillside in Point Richmond to photograph the fire in an oil unit at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, in August 2012. This story is a collaboration with The Mercury News and East Bay Times, whose mission is to inform Bay Area communities by telling accurate and compelling stories that make an impact. It was the Zoom call from hell...
October 21, 2021

Michigan legislature passes law allowing private sector to directly fund students - Fox News

Michigan's Republican-controlled House and Senate passed a bill to create what they call Student Opportunity Scholarships, drawing fierce resistance from Democrats who claim the bill is another attempt at a voucher system. "In a voucher system… money is given to the Department of Treasury, then the Department of Treasury pays the schools through the vouchers," Michigan state Rep. Phil Green, ...
October 21, 2021

Rule-of-law row with Poland set to dominate EU leaders' summit - DW (English)

Poland and the EU have long been at loggerheads over democratic and rule-of-law principles A summit of European Union leaders starting on Thursday that was originally intended to discuss dramatically rising energy prices is now set to be overshadowed by an increasingly bitter feud with Poland over the rule of law. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is likely to come under pressure from ...
October 21, 2021

Charleston County Sheriff's Office Selects NICE Investigate to Digitally Transform Law Enforcement Operations and Improve Efficiency - Business Wire

HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced that the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the state of South Carolina, has selected the NICE Investigate Digital Evidence Management solution to improve agency efficiency and justice outcomes by digitally transforming how its investigators collect, analyze and share evidence. ...
October 21, 2021

Charleston County Sheriff’s Office Selects NICE Investigate to Digitally Transform Law Enforcement Operations and Improve Efficiency - Yahoo Finance

One of the largest law enforcement agencies in South Carolina will deploy NICE Investigate across the agency to improve investigative efficiency and justice outcomes HOBOKEN, N.J., October 21, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced that the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the state of South Carolina, has selected the NICE ...
October 21, 2021

California Passes Law Establishing New Wage And Hour Requirements For Employers In The Garment Industry - Employment and HR - United States - Mondaq News Alerts

On September 27, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 62, also known as the Garment Worker Protection Act, into law. SB 62 makes California the first state to require an hourly minimum wage for garment workers by banning piece rate pay. SB 62 expands the definition of a garment manufacturer and extends the scope of liability for wage and hour violations to clothing brands—and like...
October 21, 2021

It's time to revise 66-year-old state law - Sunbury Daily Item

It's time to revise 66-year-old state law  Sunbury Daily Item
October 21, 2021

California Updates Its Automatic Renewal Law - Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration - United States - Mondaq News Alerts

In 2017, California updated its automatic renewal law to create some of the strictest requirements in the country. Now, just four years later, the Governor Newsom signed a new law that will impose even stricter requirements. Requirements for Free Trials: If a program includes a free or discounted trial period of 31 days or more, unless the consumer cancels, a business must send consumers a ...