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TOO MUCH DATA – TOO LITTLE TIME

Barrett & Greene

We agree that officers should be held accountable and that strong actions are needed to prevent racial profiling. But while our administration supports efforts to make law enforcement more transparent, more just, and more accountable, this bill would take officers away from policing our streets and engaging with the community.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. Next-Generation Ohio Land Banks.

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. Elected officials and attorneys, who took oaths to uphold the state constitution, understandably wish to tread carefully. 744 (1938) (holding that the Housing Authorities Law serves a constitutional public purpose); Mallard v.

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So, Your Jurisdiction is Thinking of Starting a Revenue Manual…

Death and Taxes

First, it allows revenue forecasters and budget analysts (amongst others) to more easily explain the forecast results, assumptions, limitations, and processes to elected officials, managers, and residents. What are the laws that govern motor vehicle taxes in North Carolina? Laws authorizing use. What goes into laws?

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Public Administration Under Trump: An Age of Institutional Decline? By Don Moynihan

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

prides itself on a reverence to the constitution, and on being “a government of laws, not of men,” in the words of John Adams. system seem designed to constrain elected officials who do not respect them. Bush era, appointees in the Justice Department broke the law when they used ideological screens for career positions.