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.
Law enforcement agencies have seized more than 19,000 ghost guns at crime scenes in 2021, a more than tenfold increase in five years, the Justice Department said
All of the officers were found to have sincerely held religious beliefs that the arbiter found should have exempted them from the state’s vaccine mandate
Matthew Hamilton, the officer who was later fired and indicted for manslaughter in the death of Joseph Lopez, pursued “qualified immunity” from liability
Detroit’s Fair Chance Housing Ordinance regulates criminal background checks in tenant screening to provide ex-offenders opportunity for housing.
The state of Illinois is reviewing a lapse in retrieving the handgun used in a workplace shooting that killed five at the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora.
Former Newark Mayor and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker announced his Election 2020 bid for President.
Santa Clara County offers an opening argument on how loss of data speed hampered wildfire emergency response in net neutrality lawsuit brought against the FCC.
Air transportation workforce address effects of the 2019 Government Shutdown. About 20% of air traffic controllers are eligible to retire, threatening U.S. air travel system operations.
Of those surveyed, an overwhelming majority think both Congress and tech companies should do more to protect data, but not all are convinced either will do anything on privacy regulation in 2019.
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced in video on social media that he is exploring a potential bid for U.S. President in Election 2020.
Former San Antonio Mayor and HUD Secretary during the Obama administration Julian Castro announced his Election 2020 bid for President.
States have been asked to issue February SNAP benefits before January 20th to the 40 million Americans receiving food assistance benefits.
Washington joins Hawaii, Illinois, Vermont, New York and Florida prohibiting anyone under 21 from buying assault rifles, matching its existing prohibitions on handguns.
A majority of New Hampshire state lawmakers ask colleagues to check their guns at the statehouse door, barring weapons from Representatives Hall.
Grappling with Tenth Amendment rights is a slippery, but important slope. Examples: cannabis, immigration, desegregation, racial discrimination and maybe Waters of the United States
The doctors are accused of supplying 13 million+ doses of prescription opioids and committing $500 million in medical fraud in Macomb County.
Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said up to 2,000 ballots may have been illegally collected and destroyed in a close North Carolina race.
IDEMIA was awarded $1.2 million through a competitive bidding process to develop Iowa’s digital licenses system for launch in late 2019 or early 2020.
Former 9-1-1 operator and member of the Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus, Rep. Norma J. Torres (D–Calif.) explains that granting public safety status may help address the growing emergency dispatcher shortage.
