The Crime Report

JULY 1, 2022

Until recently, Connecticut was the only state that had restricted how ordinary citizens buy and sell military-grade tactical gear. Critics say the armor has empowered violent criminals—including mass shooters—to return fire at law enforcement and extend their rampages.

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Manufacturing Laws 59

The Crime Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Seven states — Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and South Carolina — have mandated statewide body-worn camera adoption, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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Laws 111

The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The outcome in this case has shown that it is possible to circumvent the federal immunity granted to gunmakers that normally shields them from prosecution, but that the consumer protection law used in this case, adopted by both Connecticut and New York, could be used to maneuver around similar defenses in the future.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 17, 2022

In Connecticut, the debate around releasing graphic images is not theoretical. Gun lobby-backed lawmakers have seen plenty of grief and horror and have not been moved.”.

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Attorney Laws 97

The Crime Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Authorities said they believed some of the artwork changed hands through organized crime circles while moving from Boston to Connecticut to Philadelphia, where the trail went cold. In 2013, the FBI announced it was confident it had identified the thieves — local criminals who have since died — but declined to name them.

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Attorney 116

The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2021

While seven states — Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and South Carolina — have mandated statewide body-worn camera adoption, as of 2018 more than half of states have no rule dictating where, when and how body cams have to be used. But adoption and implementation differs dramatically across states.

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Attorney Laws 143

The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland and Montana all received full points for adopting a wide range of easy policy changes to address basic health needs. Although no state met or exceeded standards set for all four criteria, some performed well on certain measures.

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Education 143

The Fashion Law

JUNE 14, 2021

However, the Connecticut-based advertising watchdog cautions that “for many companies that have paid ostensibly substantial amounts of money to settle allegations of false or deceptive advertising, it is a small price to pay compared to the amount of money coming in.” .

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Manufacturing Legal Legal Court 72

The Crime Report

JULY 9, 2021

While seven states — Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and South Carolina — have mandated statewide body-worn camera adoption, as of 2018 more than half of states have no rule dictating where, when and how body cams have to be used. But adoption and implementation differs dramatically across states.

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Attorney Laws 98

The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For Khan, who has only come forward to speak with The Intercept with part of his identity revealed, his life has never been the same after telling FBI agents in Connecticut that he wouldn’t spy on mosques in the U.S. ‘My Life was Destroyed by the FBI’. or in Pakistan. .

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Government Immigration Lawyer Lawyers 143

The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In a Connecticut juvenile facility, families can spend extended time with detainees, and staff are on hand to answer questions. The initiative is under development in six states. The Restoring Promise units in South Carolina , for example, allows families to join incarcerees in the units and share meals.

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Contract Technology 122

The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

Virginia, and Connecticut, a version of a proposal drafted by Cynthia Lee, a law professor at George Washington University, has been adopted. As many states have grappled with the issue of when it is appropriate to use deadly force in certain encounters, many have raised the legal standard. In Washington, D.C.,

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Laws Misdemeanor Felony Drafting 124

The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

A number of states including New York and Connecticut have already passed new laws or expanded existing red-flag laws to include reports from family members and medical professionals, respectively.

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Manufacturing Finance Contract Laws 52

The Crime Report

JULY 2, 2021

In Connecticut, employers are required to pay jurors for their first five days served, while Massachusetts requites the same for three days. Many other cities and counties are trying to increase jury duty pay. Some counties in Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, and Tennessee pay $10; in Georgia, some pay $5, says The Indy.

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Finance Court Lawyer Lawyers 143

The Crime Report

APRIL 22, 2022

She also serves as facilitator of the Connecticut Reentry Policy Working Group; and as a researcher Yale Law School Prof. Melat Eskender, a student at Yale University, is leader of the Fresh Start Program, which helps formerly incarcerated individuals apply to have their criminal records erased.

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Healthcare Law School Laws Court 126

The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

An innovative violence prevention strategy connecting community outreach workers with violent crime victims while they’re still in the hospital and mentoring them post-discharge in an effort to prevent retaliatory shootings and repeat victimization could potentially be funded by Medicaid, reports The Trace.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In Connecticut, where I was once incarcerated, almost one-third of employees resisting vaccination are corrections officers,” Bozelko wrote. In New York, corrections officers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in late October to protest New York City’s vaccine mandate.

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Depositions Contract 120

The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Red Flag” seizures, officially known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOS), have been a major anti-gun violence tool for law enforcement for more than two decades—Connecticut was the first state to enact one in 1999.

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Laws Legal Assistant Legal Assistance Education 98

The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2022

In contrast, the states of Connecticut, New York, Nebraska, New Jersey, and Massachusetts had the lowest, according to the study. “Unfortunately, this ongoing spike in firearm killings has reversed a trend that saw disparities waning over the previous two decades.”.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2023

In Connecticut, a study found that when people are connected with primary care after incarceration they are less likely to be hospitalized or to be re-incarcerated, which can save the state money. “None of these crimes I would have committed if I had somewhere to go,” he said in a phone call from Ventress Correctional Facility in Alabama.

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Office Assistant 97

The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In Connecticut, lawmakers passed a law that went into effect in early October that makes it easier for people who have been emotionally abused to obtain restraining orders, reports the Hartford Courant. “It’s about being another tool in the toolbox that we don’t currently have.”.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lowery-Keith, the co-author of this essay, was traveling to Virginia from Connecticut with her trafficker, who was out of jail on pretrial release for a malicious wounding charge against one of his other victims. Mehlman-Orozco pulled over to help the woman, who she later learned was a victim of sex trafficking—Jennifer Lowery-Keith.

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Laws Court Attorney 122

The Crime Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

.” For Black parents in New York City with some social capital, they might be able to tap into, for example, the Fresh Air Fund, where they can send their kid to live in Connecticut for a summer and they get to see a world outside of their block.

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Court 145

The Crime Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

By analyzing data from Connecticut’s The State of Connecticut Electronic Defense Weapon Analysis and Findings, 2016 (Connecticut is one of the few states to publish this data), Roche found that Connecticut officers used TASERs on 542 people in 2016. Of those, 37 were minors aged 7-17 years.

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Laws Contract Litigation Litigating 131

The Crime Report

AUGUST 26, 2022

In recent years, New York City, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, and the State of Connecticut made phone calls free for incarcerated people. The FCC also took steps to lower costs. But due to a 2017 Federal court decision, its authority has been restricted to only regulating calls that cross state lines, what we once called long distance.

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Court Decisions Court 111

The Crime Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A bill backing the argument had already cleared the Connecticut House of Representatives, and Murphy knew that he had no real chance of passing by unanimous consent in the Senate, but he shared with journalists that he had to try everything he could. . “ Two days following the Oxford school shooting, Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)

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Criminal Law Education Laws Legal 122

The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2022

Looking for other possible solutions, Darcie Vandegrift , a sociologist researcher looking at the profile of school shooters, consultant and a lecturing professor at Drake University writes in her latest op-ed with The Conversation that if our country wants to change the climate that is enabling these horrors: “mourning after mass shootings isn’t enough.”. (..)

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Education Laws 119

The Crime Report

MARCH 21, 2022

In prisons across the country, officials have unilaterally banned hundreds of books, but now, officials in Connecticut have banned thousands of new titles — including educational books about drawing and computers, hip hop culture books, “A Description of Scientology,” George R.

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Education Government Legal Legal 111

The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

Similar legislation earned bipartisan support and passed in Utah, Connecticut, California and Michigan. Assemblymember Anna Kelles, in her speech, touted the success of clean slate bills in other states, including Republican-majority states. Texas, Missouri and West Virginia are considering their own version of the bill.

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Misdemeanor Felony Education Laws 98

The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Chandra Bozelko, a John Jay/Langeloth Justice Reporting Fellow, served more than six years at York Correctional Institution in Connecticut. Prisons can honor both — for all incarcerated people. Bozelko is a columnist for several publications, and the author of Prison Diaries , a prizewinning blog.

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Education Laws Government 122

The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2023

Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. 11, 2016, the plane flew from Dallas to Dulles to New Haven, Connecticut, before flying back later that afternoon. This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.

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Real Estate Court Government Legal 98

The Crime Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Connecticut, New York and Washington State expanded voting rights for returning citizens. Alaska, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah?adopted Eight states?Alaska,

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Government Laws Legal Legal 132

The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2022

Similarly, a PPI survey of commutations from 2005 through mid-2021 in eight states— New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, new Hampshire, Pennsylvania. and Rhode Island—found they were used rarely by state governors.

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Government Attorney 98

The Crime Report

JUNE 10, 2022

Connecticut and Indiana, which have the country’s oldest red-flag laws, enacted in 1999 and 2005, have seen a notable reduction in firearam suicides despite an overall increase in suicides across the country, an analysis of suicide rates and gun seizures between 1981 and 2015 found. Suicides account for just over half of U.S. Multiple U.S.

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Laws Court 91

The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Right-wing radio host Alex Jones and his company, Infowars, were ordered by juries in Connecticut and Texas to pay nearly $1.5 As a journalism professor at the University of Connecticut, I have studied the misinformation that surrounded the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. Read the original article.

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