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Cleveland’s head juvenile court judge announced reforms to transform how the county deals with children accused of crimes, reports Cleveland.com. The most ambitious change is the creation of a Community Intervention Center to match children who come in contact with the criminal justice system to...
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This week marks the 14th annual Global Asbestos Awareness Week.
This year, the campaign focuses on banning asbestos, preventing exposure, enforcing regulations and strengthening international partnerships.
It’s easy to assume that asbestos exposure is a risk of the past.
Most Americans think asbestos was banned long...
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New York City police officers responding to reports of a man threatening people with a gun fatally shot a man carrying a metal pipe, mistaking it for a firearm. It happened just before 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn after three...
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Black students, boys, and students with disabilities are disproportionately disciplined in K-12 schools across the U.S., says a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), reports NPR. Those disparities were consistent, “regardless of the type of disciplinary action, regardless of the level of school...
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As dogs and other animals increasingly are used in courts to comfort and calm prosecution witnesses, a few voices are calling for keeping the practice on a short leash, saying they could bias juries, the Associated Press reports. The use of dogs in courts has...
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The number of federal prosecutions for white-collar offenses has plummeted, The American Lawyer reports. The decline has occurred steadily, but under the Trump administration, such prosecutions have fallen below 6,000 per year for the first time in 20 years, says the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse...