This is part two of a two-part article on how implementation of the GDPR in the EU will affect U.S. litigation and the delivery of litigation support services in the United Sates. Part 1 provided an overview of the legal framework of the GDPR and...
An expanding web of largely unknown security contractors is marketing facial recognition systems directly to school and community-center leaders, pitching the technology as an all-seeing shield against school shootings like those at Parkland, Fl., and Santa Fe, Tx., the Washington Post reports. Although facial recognition...
One of Chicago’s largest social service agencies is spearheading a multimillion-dollar effort aimed at offering a part-time job and additional support to men who are driving the city’s epidemic of gun violence, the Chicago Tribune reports. The program, run by Heartland Alliance, is seeking those...
U.S. authorities are transferring 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees into federal prisons, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the U.S. illegally, Reuters reports. Five federal prisons will temporarily take in...
Families of students who were killed at Santa Fe, Tx., High School have sued the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the 17-year-old junior charged with killing 10 and injuring 13 more. The familes say the parents, whose legally owned guns Pagourtzis reportedly used in the attack,“utterly...
Education reduces crime, plain and simple. The RAND Corporation underscored the positive impact of education in its 2013 review of the research reports on correctional education over the last couple of decades. Bottom line from their reports: providing education programs for incarcerated men and women significantly...