American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This is welcome news, but deaths are still up 14% since 2019, and drivers in the United States killed 3,373 people in the first half of 2023, after the number of pedestrian deaths reached a four-decade high of more than 7,500 in 2022. million in Medicaid expenditures in just five years. is at an inflection point with road safety.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

The deployment and results SOMA is a leading technology partner providing critical response and operating software solutions for law enforcement, first responder, and government agencies. Prior to 2019, NPD’s on-premises system was failing the agency in workflows and other important day-to-day agency tasks.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

MARCH 18, 2022

6:18-CV-06772-MAT, 2019 WL 2192502, at *6 (W.D.N.Y. May 21, 2019) (“[D]og owners forfeit many of these possessory interests when they allow their dogs to run at large, unleashed, uncontrolled and unsupervised.” 18-CV-04189-ARR-PK, 2019 WL 1406647, at *7 (E.D.N.Y. 28, 2019) (in turn quoting Dziekan , 376 F. Hall , No.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 28, 2024

In 2019, the French government passed legislation transforming the healthcare system by establishing a digital health space (ENS). Germany has proposed its own national law, the Health Data Use Act (GDNG), to improve access to healthcare data. The electronic patient record (EHR) will serve as the central hub for healthcare data.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 6, 2025

Lawing said the document gives the Workforce Alliance and others a starting point for competitively applying for federal grants. "I These things are all knit together now," Fluhr said. Partners in the effort are quick to point out the the 13 identified projects are a starting point. Other projects exist, but these are the most attainable.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. 3 (2019): 795-817.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Under Minnesota law, the party challenging the constitutionality of legislation must meet the very heavy burden of demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt that the legislation is unconstitutional. The action succeeded before a trial court, but that decision was reversed by Minnesota's Court of Appeals. Fletcher Props., 2d 410 (Minn.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

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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Center for Community Progress

JULY 22, 2024

When a property owner dies without a will or estate plan, state laws governing inheritance determine how the property is passed to family members legally entitled to it. Though heirs’ property is widespread, it disproportionately affects Black landowners in the South due to the legacy of slavery and racist land ownership laws.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 24, 2024

Partnership President and CEO Max Stier speaking about our work on rebuilding trust in government at govDATAx 2023. The Data Foundation, notably through its govDATAx summit , works toward this goal.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 19, 2022

Known as “Desmond’s Law” it was enacted in October of 2016. The first law of its kind in the nation the statute puts a pro bono lawyer or a law student under the supervision of a law professor in court to advocate for justice for the dog or cat victim of egregious abuse. There is no “get out of jail free’ card any more.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The School of Government property tax law expert, Chris McLaughlin, evaluates possible bias in property tax appeals. DFI in the news: The Well revisits one of the 2019 stops of the Tar Heel Bus Tour, downtown Kannapolis, and describes DFI’s work there and the City’s successful revitalization effort. unc.live/3SEV3f6.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 20, 2023

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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Center for Community Progress

JULY 3, 2024

The City successfully advocated for a change to state law that would open up their ability to use in rem code lien foreclosure, a tool developed by Community Progress in 2019 for the city of Mobile. Implementing policy and practice changes that address vacancy is an enormous task, and many communities can’t do it alone.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 5, 2022

And whether that involves helping people pay their water bills or allowing law enforcement to preserve crime data, the cost of IT security is worth it, she believes. In August 2019, 23 local governments, from one end of Texas to another, were hit by ransomware. Here are her suggestions to keep government agencies cyber-secure.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

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. Between 2019 and 2023, there was a 40% increase in the number of job openings for police officers. At the same time, the number of applications per job decreased by 39%.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 24, 2022

But since we moved here in Fall 2019 it's only gotten worse--partly because I am now more familiar at a granular level of the b.s. The other thing that the State Legislature is very good at is laws directed at Salt Lake City, taking away local authority, such as to create historic districts. Gerrymandering is even worse than before.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 17, 2021

The policy brief analyzes properties with various shares of rent stabilized units to understand whether the law had a differential impact on primarily rent stabilized properties. For these reasons, some argued prior to the law’s passage that the HSTPA would negatively impact building values in the short- and long-term.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works. Moore-Bick, M.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural ecosystem element a key addition: -- " Building the arts and culture ecosystem in DC: Part One, sustained efforts vs. one-off or short term initiatives ," (2015) and in 2019 I added another point that was a given, but hadn't been codified into its own point, (..)

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Google Public Sector

MAY 5, 2020

These observations are based on the total number of government requests for user information (81,785) across all of Google we received from July 2019 to December 2019. In each case, we reviewed the requests to ensure they were consistent with our policies and practices outlined below, and applicable law.

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iGrantWriters

JULY 7, 2021

1793), as amended by Section 105 of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-296), authorizes funds to provide grants on a competitive basis to State agencies and U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Description The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (the Act), Section 23 (42 U.S.C. Territories.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The number of democracies across the globe has decreased from its peak in 2019. Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

While not all states have mandatory recycling laws, whether for disposables or organic waste, most cities and counties have some sort of voluntary or required household recycling program, separate from requirements for commercial recycling. From 2014 to 2019 alone, the number of communities offering composting programs grew by 65 percent !

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The CIO Council

MARCH 28, 2023

In 2019, federal law enforcement charged 35 people associated with telemedicine companies and cancer genetic testing laboratories (CGx) with fraudulently billing Medicare more than $2.1 The scale and complexity of healthcare operations have attracted fraud and abuse.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. Constitutional case law examines (1) the necessity of a local government’s proposed affordable housing activity and (2) whether the private sector is “unable to meet the need.”

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 15, 2022

There are currently three laws staying, or temporarily halting, evictions for tenants in New York City: the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act (“CEEFPA”), the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“CERAP”), and the Tenant Safe Harbor Act. Possessory Judgments. Unexecuted Warrants.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 22, 2024

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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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 14, 2021

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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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 18, 2024

NHS Long Term Plan In 2019, while the UK was confronted with serious challenges spanning workforce shortages, funding pressures, and increased demand for services, the National Health Service (NHS) announced the launch of its Long Term Plan. This ensures that patient data remains secure and compliant with relevant privacy laws.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 8, 2024

This disparity not only violates the principles of Equal Protection and Fair Housing laws but also contributes to deepening the divide in housing affordability, placing a heavier financial burden on Black households and potentially affecting the long-term value of their properties.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Take encouragement in the learning that comes from experiencing and observing the laws in action. This short submission has been written by Martin Stewart-Weeks and is based, in large part, on ideas and insights presented in the book he co-wrote with Simon Cooper, published in July 2019 – Are We There Yet? Mariana Mazzucato).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws. That’s no coincidence, experts say. Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions.

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