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Your personal information is threatened by more pernicious tools and attacks each year. While this blog often describes poorly written privacy laws stifling business and dangerous bureaucratic overreach by privacy regulators, it will not lose sight of the metastasizing threats posed to our information. We need to be aware of these hazards and protect ourselves. A recent scan of privacy articl...

By Kristine Sorensen Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — From the halls of Huston Middle School in the Burrel School District to the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, a group of seventh-graders is learning their opinions and voices can have a big impact. They are working hard to get a state law passed that would mandate recess or a minimum 30 minutes break during ...

Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG The literacy law under scrutiny is named after the late former state Rep. Steve Carter, a longtime champion of making reading improvements for students. Bill Feig While well below what friends of the late Steve Carter are aiming for, state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley said he plans to use $40 million in federal stimulus dollars in p...

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John Barrasso Top panel Republican cautions against partisan push Manchin says public ‘stuck with’ bill for cleanups House Democrats’ fast-tracking of fees on minerals and other hard-rock mining royalties in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package would poison any hope of a bipartisan compromise, the top Republican on the Senate energy committee said Tuesday. The warning from Sen. John Bar...

News The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office used drones to search for James Farris last week. A police drone in Westport, Conn. NBC Connecticut Multiple air units were deployed last week during a search for a man on the run from law enforcement with homicide warrants. James Farris was wanted for the killing of a man in East Brainerd Wednesday night. The two-day manhunt ended when a Hamilton Cou...

[author: Jasper Hoffstedde]* The European Directive for the protection of persons who report breaches of European Union law (the "Whistleblower Directive") sets the minimum standards for protecting people who report EU law breaches. The legislative bill converting (or implementing) the Whistleblower Directive into national Dutch law was submitted to the Lower House of the Dutch parliament on ...

TULSA, Oklahoma - The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services will soon train law enforcements on how to help someone having a mental health crisis. A grant from the Department of Health and Human Services gives $121,000 for Crisis Intervention Training each year. The funding lasts for five years. If you or someone you know is going through a mental health issue, th...

National and local law enforcement and legal organizations to participate in 13th annual School of Legal Studies Career Day BANGOR – The School of Legal Studies in Husson University’s College of Business will be holding its 13th Annual Career Day on Wednesday, Oct. 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Newman Gymnasium, 1 College Circle. “The overwhelming enthusiasm we received from area law enfor...

Helen Camlakides, owner of Sportsman’s Kennels in Manorville, addressed the Town Board Tuesday. (Credit: Tim Gannon) The Riverhead Town Board on Tuesday approved a law to ban the sale of commercially bred dogs, cats and rabbits, completing an effort to curb what some residents have called an “inhumane” and “cruel” practice. The law aims to break the “puppy mill pipeline” and to “promote anima...