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Approximately 1,000 patients have been seen at DocGo clinics outside Dollar General stores since the service started last fall
Three Wilkes-Barre Housing Authority high-rises will be outfitted with sprinklers by the summer of 2024
The California state prison system aims to increase the female workforce from 17% to 30% by expanding recruitment efforts
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It remains unclear what specific criteria would have to be met to resume the reopening process
Jackson County Sheriff Darryl Forté said he foresees reporting officers to the registry as being mandatory and said an appeals process would also be available
Officers would be replaced by trained, unarmed professionals to limit unnecessary confrontation on calls that don’t involve a threat to public safety
Several Minneapolis police officers issued a public letter condemning the killing of George Floyd, writing, “This is not who we are”
“You experience the pandemic, put the experience of the late 1960s on top of that, the grieving, the financial worries ... we’re looking at an epidemic of mental health crises”
During a virtual meeting of the Big City Mayors coalition, mayors from cities across California discussed homelessness solutions as well as police reform strategies going forward
The United States Conference of Mayors has launched a new initiative to produce, advance and enact meaningful reforms to address police violence and patterns of racial discrimination
Much of the HPD increase is due to a 3% raise for officers under a 2018 labor contract that expires in December
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said voters in line at one of Atlanta’s largest precincts reported all the machines were down
As of Tuesday afternoon, all southern states received F grades on the “Social Distancing Scoreboard” from technology company Unacast