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U.S. bail-bond insurers spend big to keep defendants paying | Reuters
U.S. bail-bond insurers spend big to keep defendants paying | Reuters
Insurance companies have spent $17 million to defeat proposals to weaken or abolish the for-profit bail industry in the United States, a system that brings insurers $15 billion in business a year, according to a Reuters analysis of campaign contributions, company financial...
·reuters.com·
U.S. bail-bond insurers spend big to keep defendants paying | Reuters
Tool for police reform rarely used by local prosecutors
Tool for police reform rarely used by local prosecutors
SEATTLE (AP) — Isaiah Obet was behaving erratically and in mental distress in 2017 when Auburn police officer Jeff Nelson ordered his police dog to attack and then shot Obet in the torso. Obet fell to the ground and Nelson fired again, fatally shooting Obet in the head.
·apnews.com·
Tool for police reform rarely used by local prosecutors
This is how police request customer data from Amazon
This is how police request customer data from Amazon
Anyone can access portions of a web portal used by law enforcement to request customer data from Amazon, even though the portal is supposed to require a verified email address and password. Amazon’s law enforcement request portal allows police and federal agents to submit formal requests for customer data along with a legal order, like […]
·techcrunch.com·
This is how police request customer data from Amazon
What Jails Cost: Cities
What Jails Cost: Cities
Vera works closely with government and civic leaders to urgently build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities.
·vera.org·
What Jails Cost: Cities
U.S. government increases oversight of police-reform monitors
U.S. government increases oversight of police-reform monitors
The U.S. Justice Department, in the midst of investigating policing practices in three major cities, will toughen oversight of federal monitors who supervise implementation of police reforms mandated in civil consent decrees, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Monday.
·reuters.com·
U.S. government increases oversight of police-reform monitors
Police reforms seek to increase police accountability, halt racial bias -
Police reforms seek to increase police accountability, halt racial bias -
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – County leaders are forging ahead with reforms aimed at increasing police transparency and ending racially biased policing in communities of color. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors signed off on three proposals. Supervisor Nathan Fletcher introduced three proposals to increase police accountability and promote practices that can lead to better relations between community members and police....
·kusi.com·
Police reforms seek to increase police accountability, halt racial bias -
The Appeal
The Appeal
The Appeal is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to exposing how the U.S. criminal legal system fails to keep people safe and perpetuates harm. Our work shows the human and economic costs of our expansive carceral system, equips people with the tools to make change, and elevates solutions that seek to create a safer society without clinging to punitive responses.
·theappeal.org·
The Appeal
Law Schools Make Remarkable Progress – Boosting Bar Pass Rates and Diversity Standards
Law Schools Make Remarkable Progress – Boosting Bar Pass Rates and Diversity Standards
Three law schools have managed to comply with the American Bar Association’s (ABA) accreditation standard requiring a two-year bar passage rate of at least 75%. The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar recently announced that Ave Maria School of Law, the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School […]
·jdjournal.com·
Law Schools Make Remarkable Progress – Boosting Bar Pass Rates and Diversity Standards
Former Ohio police officer files civil rights suit against city, department
Former Ohio police officer files civil rights suit against city, department
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A former East Liverpool police officer filed a civil rights suit Monday in federal court, alleging the city and department fired him for reporting on misconduct by fellow officers to the FBI.
·wdtn.com·
Former Ohio police officer files civil rights suit against city, department
U.S. Justice Department urges panel not to limit 'acquitted conduct' sentencings
U.S. Justice Department urges panel not to limit 'acquitted conduct' sentencings
The U.S. Department of Justice is opposing a bipartisan panel's proposal to curtail federal judges' ability to impose longer prison sentences on criminal defendants based on conduct for which they were acquitted at trial.
·reuters.com·
U.S. Justice Department urges panel not to limit 'acquitted conduct' sentencings
Former EL officer files civil suit in federal court against city, administration and officers
Former EL officer files civil suit in federal court against city, administration and officers
Former East Liverpool police officer Christopher Green has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against the City of East Liverpool, the city’s administration and multiple police officers. The lawsuit, filed March 6, alleges Green was wrongfully fired from his position as retaliation against him for reporting on the alleged misconduct of fellow officers […]
·reviewonline.com·
Former EL officer files civil suit in federal court against city, administration and officers
Justice Department reviewing policies on transgender inmates
Justice Department reviewing policies on transgender inmates
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is reviewing its policies on housing transgender inmates in the federal prison system after protections for transgender prisoners were rolled back in the Trump administration, The Associated Press has learned.
·apnews.com·
Justice Department reviewing policies on transgender inmates
Kimberly L. Jones
Kimberly L. Jones
Kimberly Latrice Jones is an American author and filmmaker, known for the New York Times bestselling young adult novel, I'm Not Dying With You Tonight and for the viral video How Can We Win published during the George Floyd protest. The book was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in 2020. That same year, a seven-minute video featuring Kim using a Monopoly analogy to explain the history of racism and its impact on Black Americans went viral, being shared by Trevor Noah, LeBron James, Madonna, and more. The viral video was featured on shows like Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. She has subsequently signed an overall deal with Warner Brothers via her production company Push Films with her partner DeWayne “Duprano” Martin. Kim's literary roots run deep. She served on the Selection Committee for Library of Congress' 2016-2017 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, the 2015 Children’s Choice Illustrator Committee for The Children's Book Council, and the advisory board that created the Creative and Innovative Education Master’s Degree program at Georgia State University. She has been featured in Ms. Magazine, Seventeen, Paste Magazine, Bustle, Hello Giggles, Book List, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, and was Book Brahmin in an issue of Shelf Awareness. She received one of the inaugural James Patterson Holiday Bookseller Bonus grants while working at the famous children’s bookstore, Little Shop of Stories. Most recently, Kim’s bestselling novel, I’m Not Dying With You Tonight, co-authored with Gilly Segal, was nominated for an NAACP Image award, Georgia Author Of The Year award, and the Cybils Awards. I’m Not Dying With You Tonight was selected as the September 2019 book club pick for the Barnes & Noble YA book club and Overdrive’s Big Library Read.She resides in Atlanta and is the proud mother of a gifted boy. She lives for wigs and nail art, as her style icons are Dolly Parton, Chaka Khan, and Diana Ross.
·kimjoneswrites.com·
Kimberly L. Jones