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Some incarcerated people with lengthy prison sentences may see a reduction in their time now that Contra Costa County is among the first in the nation to launch a resentencing pilot program, which it did this month. For decades, California’s “tough on crime” stance sent swaths of individuals into state prisons with lengthy sentences. While the state’s political leaders and the judicial system...

Five local law enforcement agencies gathered at Cascades Park on Wednesday to unite forces against domestic violence. The Tallahassee Police Department, Leon County Sheriffs Office and the three college campus police departments unveiled wraps on the hoods of their law enforcement vehicles with the words, "End the Silence on Domestic Violence." Domestic violence:Brittany Steier's family sti...

Credit unions fully support legislation containing a national data security and privacy standard, CUNA wrote to the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday for its hearing consumer privacy. “Credit unions strongly support the enactment of a national data security and data privacy law that includes robust security standards that apply to all who collect or hold personal data and is preemptive of s...

Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that on September 28, 2021, U.S. Judge Jack Zouhary sentenced Robert Escobar, 51, of Toledo, Ohio, to 25 years imprisonment after Escobar pleaded guilty in February of 2021 to three counts of possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance. According to court records, on separate occasions between March and October of 2019, DEA...

ANDERSON, Texas (KBTX) - Grimes County Commissioners are budgeting significant pay raises for some of their county employees. As the new fiscal year starts, the county is giving merit pay raises across the board for jailers, deputies, dispatchers and constable deputies. Those employees are getting $3 an hour raises, or more than $6,200 a year. They hope to be able to recruit and retain more e...

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor on April 23, 2021. (CNN)Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned an audience of law students about the frustration of having to write dissents. "There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amoun...

Business/Economy The Holland America cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam is seen from the Sealaska boardroom on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021 in Juneau. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Sen. Lisa Murkowski is trying to make a temporary, pandemic-driven exemption from longstanding federal maritime laws permanent for Alaska cruises. Alaska’s senior senator submitted the Cruising for Alaska’s Workforce Act in the U.S. Se...

Missouri abortion law leads to court battle over referendums  KCTV Kansas City

LEE COUNTY, Ala. (WRBL) – An Alabama Law Enforcement icon is celebrating 50 years of service to the community with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Major Cary Torbert was the first African American hired as a Lee County Deputy Sheriff on October 1st, 1971. Half a century later, Torbert is one of the most respected law enforcement officials in the state and southeast. Lee County Sheriff Jay Jo...

Catskill trustees pass short-term rental law | Greene County  Hudson Valley 360