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(WHAM file photo) Rochester, N.Y. — A new partnership between local law enforcement and faith leaders aims to help bolster police-community relations. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and the United Christian Leadership Ministry say they’re working together to share information related to law enforcement practices. The groups say an open discourse will help foster improved relationships bet...

House passes abortion rights bill but little chance of becoming law  ABC News

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A coalition including worker unions and a disability rights group filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen over a law passed earlier this year that eliminates same day voter registration The lawsuit was filed by the Montana Federation of Public Employees, the Montana AFL-CIO, the Montana Association of Centers for Independent Living, a...

Québec’s Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information, was adopted unanimously, on September 21, 2021, receiving assent on September 22, 2021. The clock has started running to prepare for its implementation in covered organizations. While most new provisions will come into effect only two years after assent, the organizational transform...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — In a bid to nullify Texas’ controversial near-total abortion ban, the U.S. House on Friday passed a reproductive rights bill that would codify into federal law the right to an abortion. It was a starkly partisan vote, with a Texas Democrat joining with the Republicans as t...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a news conference about the House vote on H.R. 3755, the “Women’s Health Protection Act” legislation to “establish a federally protected right to abortion access” at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 24, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters House Democrats on Friday approved wide-ranging legislation to protect abortion rights, a swift but mos...

Illinois Court Clarifies Biometric Law Limitation Period  The National Law Review

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A former member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, US Army Veteran and community activist is going to be celebrated on Friday morning. Bogalusa native, Captain Leroy Burton passed away on Friday, September 3. On Friday, September 24, a motorcade procession is happening for Leroy Burton. That motorcade will take Captain Burton to his final resting pla...

In 2016, the conservative James Madison Institute and libertarian Charles Koch Institute polled Floridians about their attitudes on the criminal justice system. A full 75% believed that prisons cost Florida taxpayers too much money; almost two-thirds felt too many nonviolent people were behind bars, and 72% agreed that reform was needed. That same year, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune published t...