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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

6:12-CV-1697-Orl-37DAB, 2014 WL 3908187 (M.D. 11, 2014); McCarthy v. In short, “the law does not require the officer to wait until the approaching animal is within biting distance or is leaping at him before taking protective action.” App'x 177 (5th Cir. 2015) (per curiam); Schutt v. Lewis , No. Kootenai County , No.

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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year. We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC).

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Meehan, 2014). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no.

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Voices: The Role of Mobile Printers Grows in Local Government and Public Safety

State Tech Magazine

In just a few years, the global mobile printer market has grown exponentially, from $290 million in 2014 to $2.89 Mobile printers — paired with flexible, simultaneous Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity — are frequently used in local government, particularly in public safety, law enforcement and voting.

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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

Inequitable, inefficient, and ineffective laws and practices feed a cycle of poverty and disinvestment that results in property abandonment and make it harder to put properties back to equitable reuse. From 2010-2019, Franklin County, Ohio overvalued homes in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods by as much as 50 percent.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." Hailo didn't last long (" Hailo Shuts Down: How Taxi Drivers Sabotaged a Golden Opportunity and Handed Uber and Lyft the Keys ," Frommers, 2014).

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Manatee County Sheriff’s Office transforms performance management to improve service

American City & Country

The 700 public sector HR professionals and job seekers who were surveyed also note that law enforcement is one of the hardest areas to fill. Beckwith earned a bachelor’s in human resource management from Saint Leo University in 2014 and became SHRM certified in 2016.