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‘Patience, Compassion and Snacks’: A Policing Experiment That Doesn’t Involve Cops

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But the new agency has the potential to bring some changes locally. “By By and large [ACS] is a positive move” for policing in the city, says Peter Simonson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico. “It Adams grew up in a town, Las Vegas, New Mexico, that had widespread gang and drug problems.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The federal district court for the District of Columbia granted BLM’s and federal officials’ motion for voluntary remand without vacatur of claims that they failed to comply with NEPA in connection with 27 oil and gas leasing decisions across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana between September 2016 and March 2019.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Developments in other local government climate cases pending in federal district courts included the following: In Oakland and San Francisco’s case, a fully briefed renewed motion to remand is pending before the federal district court for the Northern District of California. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021.

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