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GREAT FALLS — Great Falls/Cascade County Crimestoppers will host a free public forum in Great Falls; it will feature experts talking about how the law affects what they can and cannot do. The event is called "Crime and the Law - Staying Safe in Great Falls." It will at the University of Providence from 6:30 p.m. until 8:45 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, in the UC Conference Center B (near the co...

MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma - A woman from Muskogee who recently moved was devastated to find out her storage unit in town was broken into and ransacked. The worst part thieves took her father-in-law's ashes, which were in an urn. Hear her plea and what police have to say, at 6. More Like This Top Headlines

In June 2020, New York repealed Civil Rights Law § 50-a and amended portions of the State’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), resulting in significant changes to the types of law enforcement records subject to public disclosure. Following these changes, records “compiled for law enforcement purposes” which, if disclosed, would “interfere with law enforcement investigations or judicial procee...

Gov. Inslee - 4/21 Gov. Jay Inslee gives an address on the state's coronavirus response on April 21, 2020. By KIRO 7 News Staff OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed three pieces of gun safety legislation into law on Wednesday, with survivors of gun violence in attendance at the signing. The legislation includes HB 1705, prohibiting ghost guns; HB 1630, prohibiting firearms in pu...

With racial disparities in New Jersey’s criminal justice system among the highest in the nation, a panel of top legal and civil rights advocates, experts, organizations, and prison reform activists came together to host the second installment of the IMAGINE MORE: Racial Justice Begins with Us virtual event series: “Disrupting the Criminal Justice System.” IMAGINE MORE, led by The Fund for New...

LGBT pride or LGBTQ+ gay pride with rainbow flag (iStock / Getty Images) AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote a letter to the Austin Independent School District superintendent Tuesday, condemning the district’s “Pride Week” events. Paxton wrote in the letter the lesson plans deal head-on with sexual orientation and gender identity, topics that are “unmistakably” human sexua...

On February 17, 2022, the California Legislature introduced a biometric privacy law (SB 1189) similar to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). SB 1189 would dramatically increase biometric privacy protection for California consumers, expand regulation among private business, and add to the flurry of biometric privacy class action litigation that has taken hold of U.S. court...

No-Fly Zone In a recent post, my friend and colleague, Professor Michael Schmitt set out some of the legal issues relating to the imposition of a no-fly zone over Ukraine. This post reemphasizes some of the points he raised. It also introduces a note of caution into the discussion on whether or not to impose a no-fly zone or to otherwise take steps which would or likely could result in an int...

After eight years as the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School (SLS), Beth Van Schaack, ’91, will be leaving the law school to become the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice and lead the office of that name in the U.S. State Department. Prior to coming to Stanford, she served as Deputy to the Ambassador in the same office. “I have learned so m...

WAUKEE, Iowa — High school students in Waukee walked out Wednesday morning in protest of Iowa’s new transgender athlete law. About 100 students from both high schools marched out of the school and across the road to a park. There, they took turns giving speeches. Earlier this month, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law banning transgender athletes from competing in female sports. That applies to hi...