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Last month, a group of parents in Orlando, Florida, demanded “consequences” against sixth grade science teacher Robert Thollander. His crime? Thollander acknowledged his marriage at school. “He married a man. This alone is not an issue. Sharing the details … with all his 6th grade students is the issue,” the parents wrote in a letter sent to their children’s school board, which was shared wit...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 1, 2022) – Yesterday Kentucky’s Governor Andy Beshear signed H.B. 45 into law, which will attract jobs to the state while enabling more plastics to be remade over and over again. The law was passed overwhelmingly in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, making Kentucky the 18th state to enact legislation that recognizes the important benefits of advanced re...

Utah has become the fourth state in the nation to pass broad consumer data privacy legislation, following California, Virginia, and Colorado. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) will become effective December 31, 2023, and apply to businesses that (1) conduct business in Utah or otherwise target Utah consumers; (2) have $25 million or more in annual revenue; and (3) (a) control or process t...

2020 was a record year for ransomware payments ($692 million), and 2021 will probably be higher when all the data is in, Chainalysis recently reported. Moreover, with the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia war, ransomware’s use as a geopolitical tool — not just a money grab — is expected to grow as well. But, a new U.S. law could stem this rising extortionist tide. United States President Joe Bid...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has made it clear that corporate recidivism is now a top priority of its enforcement efforts. On March 28, 2022, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra delivered a lecture, titled Reining in Repeat Offenders at the University of Pennsylvania Program on Regulation. During his lecture, Chopra indicated that the CFPB, which enforces consumer financial protecti...

This runaway alarm clock will give you a reason to get moving in the morning Deputy Darren Almendarez (KPRC 2) HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Law enforcement officers and many elected officials are offering condolences to the family and friends of Harris County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Darren Almendarez. Almendarez, 51, was out grocery shopping with his wife in north Harris County when afterwards he t...

Colorado State Patrol(CSP/KKTV) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - On April 1, and only April 1, Colorado State Patrol says you are allowed to break one law. We don’t want to spoil anything for you, so you will just have to watch the video below to see what that day is... On a completely different and unrelated note: Happy April Fool’s Day. Copyright 2022 KKTV. All rights reserved.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gay rights advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday to block a new law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. The law has catapulted Florida and DeSantis, a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, to the forefront of the country's culture wars. Critics call it the "Don't Say Ga...

Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. – Governor Jay Inslee has signed into law a first-in-the-nation statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people. The law creates a system similar to Amber Alerts and so-called silver alerts for missing children and vulnerable adults. The system will notify law enforcement and the news media when there’s a report of a missing Indigenous person. It will also...

The seeds that blossomed into U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Special Agent David Chin’s decade-long career in law enforcement were planted long before he ever joined the agency. “I really have always wanted to go into law enforcement,” said Chin, who has been with the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) Investigative Operations Directorate (IOD) for just over a year. But...