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CBS 3 Springfield - WSHMMalloy wary to US requests for immigration info
Mike Lawlor, Under Secretary for Criminal Justice Policy and Planning, said in a statement Monday that Malloy believes the program converts local law enforcement officers into US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He says victims and witnesses
Updated: 02/20/2012 03:39P
Anti-Crime Unit committed to ensure the creation of social development
The goals and initiatives projected by the Anti-Crime Unit for the financial year 2012 will therefore be centered on improving its service to the public, at large, in the execution of the key responsibilities in the areas of law enforcement.
Updated: 02/20/2012 03:36P
Connecticut governor cautious to requests by US immigration officials for
Dannel P. Malloy is responding cautiously to federal requests for information enforcing US immigration laws. The federal government is launching its Secure Communities program in Connecticut. The program uses fingerprints collected in local jails to
Updated: 02/20/2012 03:29P
Malloy wary to US requests for immigration info
Mike Lawlor, Under Secretary for Criminal Justice Policy and Planning, said in a statement Monday that Malloy believes the program converts local law enforcement officers into US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He says victims and witnesses
Updated: 02/20/2012 03:29P
Face Booked
The House Criminal Justice Committee didn't have any such provision on file, nor do state laws cover that sort of specific "impersonation," which is not quite identity theft, nor is it cyberbullying or cyberstalking, Moreno said.
Updated: 02/20/2012 03:28P
Dark days ahead?
The wording of the proposal, allowing law officials to withhold “information to be used in a prospective law enforcement action or criminal prosecution,” is deliberately broad. By avoiding specifics as to what kind of information or under what
Updated: 02/20/2012 03:15P
Law professor's death probed as suicide
Darmer, of Newport Beach, joined Chapman's full-time faculty in 2000 and specialized in criminal procedure law, according to her profile page on the Chapman website. She taught courses on criminal procedure, evidence and advanced criminal procedure.
Updated: 02/20/2012 03:04P
City Pushes Back Against Feds On Immigration
Jessica Vosburgh, a Yale law school student in an immigration law clinic, said a study of the implementation of Secure Communities in Fairfield County—where it has been in place since June of 2010—found that 71 percent of the people deported as a
Updated: 02/20/2012 03:04P
State leaders concerned about Secure Communities deportation program in
Under the “Secure Communities” program, suspects' fingerprints are submitted by local law enforcement to the FBI and ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement). If the fingerprints match those of a non-US citizen (including those here legally),
Updated: 02/20/2012 02:54P
Georgia Law to host former U.S. ambassador
By Heidi Murphy America's first Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues David Scheffer will deliver a presentation on the fate of those responsible for atrocity crimes on March 6 at 2:30 pm in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall on the University
Updated: 02/20/2012 02:54P