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In her recently published article, Emerging Second Amendment Jurisprudence, Michel & Associates attorney Bobbie Ross discusses recent developments in the practice area of firearms law and Second Amendment advocacy. The article was published in the American Bar Association Section of Litigation’s Minority Trial Lawyer. It can be found online here. The article discusses the appropriate level of legal...

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A report prepared by the Council of State Governments Justice Center for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice Pew Center on the States Public Safety Performance Project Texas Department of Criminal Justice–Community Justice Assistance Division Travis County (TX) Community Supervision and Corrections Department 2011 Link to the document:   http://www.criminaljusticecoalition.org/files/userfiles/A_Ten-Step_Guide_to_Transforming_Probation_Departments_to_Reduce_Recidivism.pdf Read more from the original source:...

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http://www.csac.counties.org/default.asp?id=3202 Link: California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Public Safety Realignment Web Page

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Visalia Times - More than 6,000 local felons are supervised by the Tulare County Probation Department and, in about a month, the department is going to get more. With deep cuts to the state’s public safety divisions, the county will soon see fuller jails, more probationers and the possibility that group homes will house ex-convicts from across the state....

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By Joe Johnson –  Hanford Sentinel – Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:15 am Kings County supervisors approved a committee-made plan this week to help deal with the coming influx of state prison inmates. The plan is in response to California’s Public Safety Realignment Bill, which aims to reduce the state budget by shifting responsibility for housing nonserious, nonviolent...

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Can you base your decision to fire an employee on his beard? American Patriot Security, a California-based security company, did just that . Now, they are being sued. Washington State resident Abdulkadir Omar, 22, started working at the security company in 2009. Omar says that at the time he was hired nobody said that he had to shave...

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Wisconsin DNR Supports Gray Wolf Delisting Follow this link: Wisconsin DNR Supports Gray Wolf Delisting

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NEW DELHI- India's National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is considering unprecedented legal action against the developers of genetically modified (GM) eggplant (brinjal) for alleged violation of the country's biodiversity laws. Go here to read the rest: India may prosecute GM eggplant developers

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Paris - The severe drought in the Horn of Africa, which has caused the death of at least 30,000 children and is affecting some 12 million people, especially in Somalia, is a direct consequence of weather phenomena associated with climate change and global warming, environmental scientists say. Read the original post: Global Warming Behind Somali Drought

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This probably doesn't surprise you, but growth in ethanol production since the year 2000 contributed to dramatic shifts in U.S. agricultural production, according to a new report from USDA's Economic Research Service. Read more here: A Decade of Ethanol