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• Nursing home task force to recommend volunteer corps, tracking app

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  The Summit County, Ohio, task force also suggested strategies for mitigating future pandemics, including a PPE dispensary and pandemic-designed facilities

• Racial equity task force calls for NC city to offer reparations

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  The task force is also calling for policies to decriminalize substance abuse, poverty, mental illness, and to address housing inequality and public health

• Maine to launch 'rapid response team' to combat opioid crisis

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  State officials said the team would conduct outreach to overdose patients and use near-real-time EMS and hospital data to track overdose numbers

• Judge blocks release of NYPD discipline records

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  Unions argued that posting unproven or false complaints could sully officers' reputations and compromise their safety

• Editorial: Diversion is a good step toward criminal justice reform

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  Pittsburgh announced a new pilot program this week that aims to keep low-level offenders out of the criminal justice system

• Two L.A. County supervisors tout pandemic safety, but put own employees at risk, staffers say

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  In an anonymous letter, employees argue that telework options have been needlessly, and recklessly, limited

• Wells Fargo food bank program aims to provide 50 million meals

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  The drive-up food banks, run in partnership with Feeding America, will be located at Wells Fargo locations across the country through September

• AP-NORC poll: 3 in 4 Americans back requiring wearing masks

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  Most Americans now favor continued restrictions to curb the virus, even if they might hamstring the economy

• Portland mayor tear-gassed by US agents

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  Mayor Ted Wheeler was standing with protesters outside the federal courthouse Wednesday night when the crowd was fired upon

• Austin EMS Association warns of overwhelming call volume, rushed ambulance decontamination

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  Austin EMS Association President Selena Xie said crews are responding to back-to-back calls and being pressured to "expedite"

• White House privately warns 11 cities must take 'aggressive action' against virus

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  Dr. Deborah Birx warned state and local leaders in a private call this week that these cities are seeing worrisome increases in test positivity rates

• L.A. mayor calls on artists to design and spread the message: Wear a mask

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  The art initiative is the city's latest attempt to bring important messaging to its younger residents, who are increasingly spreading the virus

• Trump, Barr to expand anti-crime surge to Chicago, Albuquerque

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  While Trump has linked the growing violence to protests over racial injustice, criminal justice experts say the spike defies easy explanation

• Colorado prohibits serving alcohol after 10 p.m. to curb virus

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  The state joins a growing list of governments moving to restrict alcohol as young people cause spikes in cases nationwide

• As Trump tries to speed up infrastructure projects, 21 states sue to protect waterways

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  The water regulation changes, finalized last week, will limit states' reviews of natural gas and oil pipelines and other projects impacting waterways

• Los Angeles County approves anti-racist policy agenda

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  The approval also makes LA County the 37th county in the nation since last year to declare racism a matter of public health

• NC EMS reports increase in naloxone use, plans leave-behind program

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  Wilson County EMS will begin rolling out a program to leave behind kits that contain naloxone and materials to help dispose of opioids after overdose calls

• Aurora City Council selects former DOJ attorney to lead policing review panel

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  The city's investigation will focus mainly on policies at issue in Elijah McClain's 2019 death, including use of force and the use of ketamine

• Beyond federal assistance: State COVID-19 response grants

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  Begin collecting data now to qualify for federal pass-through funding, community foundation and corporate foundation grants for COVID-19 emergency response

• Minnesota lawmakers ban neck restraints, warrior-style training after Floyd's death

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  The sweeping package was said to be one of the most substantial changes to the state's criminal justice system in years

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