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☆ Jury Acquits Deputy Who Failed to Confront Parkland Gunman
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Patricia Mazzei | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A former Florida sheriff’s deputy who failed to confront the gunman at a Parkland high school five years ago, and instead backed away from the building while the students and teachers inside endured a deadly barrage, was found not guilty of child neglect and other crimes on Thursday. When Mr. Peterson’s behavior was revealed after the shooting, critics — including some fellow police officers — painted him as being too scared to face a heavily armed gunman. His actions outraged the Parkland community, and Mr. Peterson was cast as the central character in a morality tale about cowardice and law enforcement’s duty to protect children. The gunman was sentenced last year to life in prison. Mr. Peterson was the lone armed resource officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre.

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☆ Fact Check-ICE phones given to migrants have no data or calling services
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Mobile phones provided to some migrants by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for surveillance purposes do not have access to unlimited internet data or calling services, the agency said. Another example is viewable (here)An ICE spokesperson said in a statement that the Alternative to Detention (ATD) program uses technology to ensure compliance to immigration orders for migrants who are released from custody. ICE’s website says these must be returned upon completion or reassignment from the ATD program (www.ice.gov/features/atd). Senior Attorney Laura Rivera from Just Futures Law, an immigration legal group, also said that the devices do not allow calls, texts, or internet access. As of April 22, 2023, 90% of the immigrants in the ATD program used SmartLINK, according to ICE’s latest statistics (here).

“I hope the Republican Party can muster the courage to oppose late-term abortion like we have done in the past. But after the midterms produced a slimmer-than-expected majority, there now appears to be little appetite inside the House GOP for such a bill. Troy Nehls, a Republican from Texas, told CNN: “it’s up to the states,” when asked about a national ban. The National Right to Life Committee said it is in regular communication with House Republican leadership about possible legislative efforts and educational needs on the issue. “What we’re working on right now is primarily reacquainting members with the abortion issue after the Dobbs decision.

☆ ABA Passes Resolution Opposing Suspicious-Transaction Reporting Rule for Lawyers
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Dylan Tokar | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

The association also is considering changes to its professional conduct rules around the vetting of clients. The ABA’s rules for professional conduct are typically used as a basis for the rules enforced by state courts, which serve as primary regulators of the legal trade. Under current rules, lawyers have an ethical obligation to keep confidential all information relating to the representation of their clients. Requiring lawyers to report suspicious transactions by their clients also could undermine attorney-client privilege, the group argued in their resolution. Those committees are expected to file a resolution at the annual meeting of the ABA’s policy arm later this year.

Towns said the lawmakers could have until early spring, otherwise, to develop and fine tune any proposals that emerge from Nichols' death. Share this -Link copiedMemphis police’s vaunted Scorpion unit is deactivated after Tyre Nichols' death Memphis police’s vaunted Scorpion unit has been permanently deactivated. Share this -Link copiedNFL calls for change after 'senseless death' of Tyre Nichols A day after the release of video showing the police beating of Tyre Nichols, the NFL on Saturday condemned the violence. Demonstrations continued Saturday in Atlanta, Boston and Charlotte following the release of video footage showing five former Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols, who died on Jan. 10. Attorney Blake Ballin’s comments follow the release of video footage showing the officers punching and kicking Tyre Nichols during a Jan. 7 traffic stop.

☆ Trump Facebook ban could be reversed in the coming weeks
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( David Ingram | David Ingram Covers Tech For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

For one thing, social media looks different than it did two years ago. Trump now has his own social media company, Truth Social, and his account has been restored on Twitter (where he has yet to tweet). And though there’s no legal right for Trump or anyone else to be on social media, Republicans in Florida and Texas are trying to create laws that would prevent social media companies from removing certain posts. NBC News asked a handful of experts in social media moderation what they thought about the upcoming decision. The answers offered a sense of the shifts in social media and moderation since both Twitter and Facebook banned Trump.

☆ Supreme Court Title 42 vote keeps border shut to asylum seekers, and Biden policy close to Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Layla M. Razavi | Grisel Ruiz | Layla M. Razavi Is The Interim Executive Director Of Freedom For Immigrants | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The policy, known as Title 42, had already been ruled unlawful by a federal judge. Though President Joe Biden is now pushing for an end to Title 42, he previously fought in federal court to preserve the policy despite his campaign promise to restore asylum. Title 42 was never about public health. Indeed, Title 42 came to be after the Trump White House reportedly put the squeeze on the CDC. It’s no coincidence that Title 42 has disproportionately denied Black and brown migrants their right to seek asylum.

☆ Informant warned FBI weeks before Jan. 6 that the far-right saw Trump tweet as 'a call to arms'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Ryan J. Reilly | Ryan J. Reilly Is A Justice Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

The email, which has not been previously reported, warned that the Trump tweet was “gaining hold” on social media. The confidential human source has provided information that the FBI has used in Jan. 6 cases before. The FBI confidential source said that they had “put together hundreds of pages of reports over the two weeks proceeding Jan. 6” for the bureau leading up to the attack. Months after the attack, FBI Director Chris Wray created the position of intelligence analyst in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, giving an intelligence analyst a leadership title typically reserved for FBI special agents. They said they were in regular communication with the bureau in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6.

☆ Apple plans to expand encryption of iCloud data
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN Business —Apple on Wednesday said it plans to expand end-to-end encryption of iCloud data to include backups, photos, notes, chat histories and other services, in a move that could further protect user data but also add to tensions with law enforcement around the world. Among a handful of new security tools is a feature called Advanced Data Protection which will allow users to keep certain data more secure from hackers, governments and spies, even in the case of an Apple data breach. With end-to-end encryption, not even the platform can access the data, only the sender and recipient. Privacy groups have urged Apple for years to increase encryption for iCloud backups. Not included in the new list, however, is encryption for iCloud Mail, Contacts, and Calendar due to interoperability challenges, Apple (AAPL) said.

☆ Texas mom sues police, gunmaker in Uvalde school shooting
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Hours later, Eliahna Torres was one of 19 children and two teachers massacred at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Eliahna Torres, 10, was one of 19 children and two teachers massacred at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The settlement came after the victims successfully argued that suing over marketing under state law was an exception to the federal immunity measure. Everytown is also part of a similar lawsuit after a shooting attack on parade-goers in Highland Park, Illinois, based on a state law. Another parent whose child was wounded in the shooting and two parents whose children were on campus at the time filed the first suit related to the Uvalde shooting in late September.

Lee County suffered none of the state’s 123 Irma deaths. That experience influenced many people’s decisions not to flee Hurricane Ian. “Hurricane Ian is going to be the strongest outreach messaging for southwest Florida ever,” said Gleason, the Charlotte County spokesman. “When you live through it, then that message sinks in deep and forever.”A view of the Matanzas Pass side of Estero Island, home to Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Fort Myers Beach is expected to take years to rebuild. Thomas Simonetti for NBC NewsMichael Yost's two closest friends in Fort Myers Beach drowned in Hurricane Ian.

☆ Quinn Emanuel adds longtime SEC enforcement official in D.C., California
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Chinekwu Osakwe | Thomson Reuters | Chinekwu Osakwe Covers Legal Industry News With A Focus On Midsize Law Firms. Reach Her At Chinekwu.Osakwe Thomsonreuters.Com. | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

CompaniesCompanies Law firms Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP Follow(Reuters) - Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan said Monday that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission official C. Dabney O'Riordan has joined the firm's SEC enforcement practice as a partner in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.O'Riordan was the longest serving head of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit before leaving the agency in September, according to the 900-attorney firm. At Quinn Emanuel, she will represent asset managers that handle private funds including private equity managers, hedge fund managers, mutual fund advisors and ETF advisors, she said. “There’s a lot of rulemaking going on in the asset management space,” said O'Riordan, who joined the SEC in 2005. She also knew some of her new colleagues before joining, including co-chairs of the firm’s SEC enforcement defense practice, Michael Liftik and Sarah Heaton Concannon, O'Riordan said. Read more:Litigation giant Quinn Emanuel beefs up leadership, elevating DC, NY partnersOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ New York school official seen crowd surfing at high school football game is charged with DWI shortly after
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A New York school district superintendent who crowd surfed among students at a high school football game on Friday night was arrested shortly afterward on suspicion of drunken driving and charged with DWI, police said. Police say Baldwinsville Central School District Superintendent Jason D. Thomson, 48, was seen reveling in the student section at Baker High School in Baldwinsville, about 13 miles northwest of Syracuse. Photos and videos of Thomson crowd surfing have circulated on social media and local news outlets. “Jason Thomson, had been observed by numerous individuals, 'crowd surfing' in the student section of the bleachers,” the statement said. "It is the expectation our district staff serves as role models for our students at all events," the school board said.

Prosecutors with the 18th Judicial District and DEA agents seized 114 pounds of pure fentanyl in Colorado. A spokesman for the Colorado State Patrol, which made the initial discovery of the fentanyl, provided a blunt account of the botched operation. But after this story was published, a DEA official confirmed the seizure of 114 pounds of fentanyl. "DEA is relentlessly pursuing the individuals that were involved in the trafficking of the seized fentanyl and will continue to do so." “We’ve got a record amount of fentanyl involved here, in fact, enough fentanyl to kill everyone in the state of Colorado,” Figliuzzi said.

Law enforcement in Ohio was aware of the case, Trick added, and they had to go to Indianapolis to retrieve tissue to be tested as part of a sexual assault investigation. In a prior statement regarding the initial lawsuit, Yost disagreed that the right to an abortion is protected under state law. “Aside from filing the wrong action in the wrong court, they are wrong as well on Ohio law. Abortion is not in the Ohio Constitution.”In the wake of the overturning of Roe, 13 states have put laws in place restricting most abortions. “Many patients broke down in tears in our office,” Sharon Liner, the medical director of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio, said in the affidavit.

☆ California utility targeted Asians in pot searches, lawsuit says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

The data disclosure deliberately targeted Asian Americans, with resulting disproportionate penalties against those of Asian descent, the suit says. “It’s unacceptable that two public agencies would carelessly flout state law and utility customers’ privacy rights, and even more unacceptable that they targeted a specific community in doing so,” she said in a statement. Private utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric are barred from disclosing customer utility data to law enforcement without a court order under state law and California Public Utility Commission rules, he said. Public utilities like SMUD aren’t regulated by the commission, but state law bars them “from disclosing entire neighborhoods’ worth of data to law enforcement absent a court order or ongoing investigation,” Mackey said. Southern California Edison’s policy generally requires a warrant or subpoena to share information with law enforcement.

☆ U.S. Treasury Seeks Comment on Crypto’s Illicit Finance Risks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Mengqi Sun | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +3 min

The U.S. Treasury Department is seeking public comment on the possible illicit finance and national security risks posed by the use of digital assets, as part of the agency’s mandate under President Biden’s March executive order to study the development of cryptocurrency. The request for comment, issued Monday, also asks the public for suggestions to mitigate these risks by the deadline of Nov. 3. The Treasury, in a version of the request-for-comment document on the Federal Register website, said crypto has been used in sophisticated cybercrime-related financial networks and activity, including through ransomware. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | Risk and Compliance Journal Our Morning Risk Report features insights and news on governance, risk and compliance. The request for comment comes as the crypto market sees another wave of volatility, adding to calls for greater regulatory oversight.

Authorities in Virginia violated the Constitution when they used Google location data to find people who were near the scene of a 2019 bank robbery, a federal judge ruled last week. The evidence provided by a geofence warrant alone is not enough to charge someone with a crime, police say. The judge stressed that her ruling was not meant to say whether geofence warrants should ever be used. In the end, the judge wrote, the future of geofence warrants should be taken up by lawmakers. She cited a bill in New York that seeks to ban the use of geofence warrants.

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