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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits

Barrett & Greene

A similar problem was found in three prior Connecticut Department of Emergency Services audits which occurred in 2012 through 2019. That same month, a Department of Law Enforcement operational audit in Florida also found that user access privileges “weren’t always removed upon separation.”

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WHEN CORRUPTION HITS SMALL CITIES

Barrett & Greene

In that community, which is the biggest city in rural La Plata County and the location for a few key scenes in the film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, the longtime finance director, resigned in October 2019 and subsequently pled guilty to two felony charges related to $712,000 in embezzled funds.

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

Attending a school with a high suspension rate could mean a 15% to 20% higher likelihood of a child being incarcerated as an adult, a 2019 NBER paper finds. Black students, representing only 16% of student enrollment, make up 27% of students referred to law enforcement and 31% of students subjected to school-related arrests.

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FIRST AMENDMENT/PUBLIC HEALTH: Freedom of Religion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2012, 2019 (2017). Although the Clause prohibits the government from punishing or withholding benefits based on one's religious beliefs, the Clause does not entitle citizens to an exemption from a generally applicable law solely due to their religious beliefs. 519, 535-36 (2012). Comer , 137 S. COVID-19 Pandemic.

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. Since the 2020 election, over half of the states in the US have changed election laws. In 2021, Democracy Works continued to make an impact and sent 23.3

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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Other cities have had mixed to negative results from similar initiatives. hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Haynes 2012. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457. Dannels 2019. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al.