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This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. A community group in Montgomery County was asked to pay $95,000 for copies of police discipline and complaint records, which, under a 2021 change in Maryland law, are no longer automatically private. Local public defenders in Baltimore seekin...

A Texas law passed last year calls for the blacklisting of asset managers that "boycott" fossil fuel companies. The statute requires the state comptroller to maintain a list of such firms, which would render them ineligible to manage money for state pension plans and other state entities. The basis for the blacklist will be asset manager responses to letters sent by the state comptroller. Let...

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The Harwich Finance Committee has been slapped with an open meeting law violation complaint after a resident said he caught members talking about the town budget after a meeting earlier this month was adjourned. The March 3 Finance Committee meeting aired on Ch. 18, the town's cable access station, and video and audio feed was recorded that continued 53 seconds post adjournment before cutting...

House legislation creates in Kansas law foster care bill of rights for youth, parents  Kansas Reflector

Today, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced a new Collaborative Reform Initiative. Managed out of the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), this initiative will be offering three different levels of assistance and expert services to state, local, and Tribal law enforcement partners nationwide. Each level of the initiative’s assistance is completel...

Caitlyn Clark, a former law clerk to U.S. District Judge C. Ashley Royal in Georgia, testifies before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2022. U.S. House of Representatives/Handout via REUTERS March 18 (Reuters) - A former law clerk to a federal judge in Georgia who told a Congressional panel on Thursday that she was fire...

An attorney for The Washington Post said the decisions affected the newspaper’s contents and therefore entitle the paper to an expedited dismissal under the speech-protection measure. | Alex Wong/Getty Images By Josh Gerstein 03/18/2022 01:46 PM EDT The Washington Post is wielding a law aimed at protecting free and open debate on public controversies to throw out a lawsuit brought by one of i...

The panel at the heart of the controversy. From left to right: Kate Stith, Kristen Waggoner, and Monica Miller. On Thursday morning, Judge Laurence Silberman sent an unusual email to almost every federal judge in the United States urging them to blacklist students who protested a recent event at Yale Law School. “The latest events at Yale Law School in which students attempted to shout down s...

Washburn University School of Law dean Carla Pratt will step down from her position at the end of the spring semester, the university announced Friday. Pratt will tentatively return to her home state of Oklahoma to serve as the inaugural Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Chair in Civil Rights, Race and Justice in Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, pending approval from that state univer...