Legal
Legal matters are a core focus for local and state government agencies, encompassing the creation, interpretation, and enforcement of laws and regulations that govern public affairs. Legal frameworks ensure that government actions are consistent with the rule of law and protect citizens’ rights. Though by no means a perfect system – enforcement inequities continue to make the headlines – local leaders strive to create laws that work fairly for all.
At the time of the 2019 killings, Michael Cummins was close to being arrested for probation violations
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San Francisco Fire Department Chief Jeanine Nicholson presented regulators 55 written reports of the robotaxis interfering with emergency response
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Tribal police and courts were not allowed to pursue non-Native Americans who attacked women on reservations until changes were made to the Violence Against Women Act in 2013. Now a Senate version of the reauthorization bill seeks to roll back these changes.
Native American women experience some of the nation’s highest rates of murder, sexual violence and domestic abuse.
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The state just launched a new public health campaign to tackle rising meth use, but without change to state laws, real recovery may not be possible.
The new effort will target 500,000 voters from traditionally underrepresented groups that typically lean Democratic, including African Americans, Latinos, Asians, young voters and those living in some rural communities.
The ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’ movement is on the rise. Several Virginia counties are the latest to pass these resolutions, declaring their intent to oppose “any efforts to unconstitutionally restrict” gun rights.
Democrats sparred on a number of policy issues in Atlanta Wednesday, but Mayor Buttigieg won the night for emerging from the debate unscathed.
The senator and former Newark, New Jersey, mayor spoke to an intimate crowd in Derry last week, hours after signing up for the first presidential primary.
The Vermont senator and former mayor is in a similar position to that of the 2016 presidential race: within range of a top finish, supported by a die-hard base galvanized by his economic appeal to working-class voters.
As his presidential campaign picks up steam, Pete Buttigieg is careful not to call himself a combat veteran even as he notes the danger he faced during his seven-month deployment as an intelligence officer in Afghanistan.
The new total shows just how important it is to get the census numbers right every ten years. The same group put out a preliminary estimate of $880 billion in May.
Steven Benjamin, one of South Carolina’s highest profile black politicians, says he’s ready to support the former mayor if he does indeed launch his presidential bid.
Judge Gloria R. Walker dismissed second-degree felony charges against a Florida teen who had threatened school violence because she said prosecutors could not prove the threat had been transmitted as described in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act.
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