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This Is Just Not Working For Us: Why After Ten Years On The Job- It Is Time To Fire Garcetti, Jason Zenor

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

In Lane v. Franks, the U.S. Supreme Court held that public employees who give truthful testimony in court are protected so long as it was outside their ordinary job duties. This issue arose after ten years of the Garcetti rule which does not protect employee speech pursuant to their job duties- a nebulous topic in the digital era. In applying Garcetti, lower courts have extended it to include any speech that is a product of job duties, even if it would serve the public interest. In Lane v. Franks, the Court amended the employee speech doctrine to protect …

Equality: A False Standard, Norman De Jong

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

State Of Clark County: Trends From Greater Portland Pulse, Sheila A. Martin, Portland State University. Institute Of Portland Metropolitan Studies

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

Clark County, Washington trends in population, income and wages, growth by industry and the future of work are compiled from data and demonstrated using Greater Portland Pulse.

The Economic Impact Of Oregon City’S County Seat Status, Mike Paruszkiewicz, Jeff Renfro, Peter Hulseman, Emma Willingham

Northwest Economic Research Center Publications and Reports

Impact analysis discussing the economic role of county presence in Oregon City.

Remarks At The Southern Illinois University School Of Law And School Of Medicine Symposium: The President’S Task Force On 21st Century Policing: Procedural Justice, Policing, And Public Health, Sean Michael Smoot

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Police officers are expected to play contradictory roles in society.  They are told that they are warriors—soldiers in the war on drugs, crime, and violence—but they are also expected to function as social workers, counselors, and peacekeepers.  These inconsistent roles create intense stress and mental struggle for officers.  Statistics can show the presence or absence of crime, but measuring the presence or absence of justice is far more difficult.  A comprehensive approach to officer training and practicing internal procedural justice in our law enforcement agencies is a critical step to establishing trust and improving performance.  The disease of addiction is …

Using Science To Advance The Police Profession, Howard Spivak, Maureen Mcgough, Nancy Rodriguez

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

A destructive rift exists between law enforcement and the people they are sworn to protect, and the American public is looking to law enforcement to improve performance standards and advance the field as a profession.  Essential in this process is the infusion of science into practice, ensuring that policies reflect the latest state of knowledge as to what works and what matters in policing.  This article explores how science can support and inform policing practice both in terms of developing solutions—such as the recommendations of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing—and furthering policing as a profession. The article …

Racism Creates Barriers To Effective Community Policing, Robette Ann Dias

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Robette Ann Dias has been the executive co-director of Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training since 2002.  Crossroads is a national organization that works in institutions and communities to create antiracist policy, practice and culture.  In this article Ms. Dias briefly reflects on four barriers to building trust and legitimacy in community policing that are created by racism: US society is built on a foundation of racism, every system including the legal system and law enforcement were originally designed to perpetuate white supremacy; denial of racism as a continued problem and policing as part of the problem, the prevalence of violence …

Can Rehabilitative Programs Reduce The Recidivism Of Juvenile Offenders?, Tyneshia Renee Thompson Ms.

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Since the founding of the juvenile justice system, minimal attention or research effort has been contributed to the understanding of factors affecting the rates of juvenile arrests, detainment, and return to community. Over time, studies have seen juvenile recidivism rise and fall. Counties and states do not keep solid empirical data on recidivism because minors are constantly reentering juvenile detention centers. States and counties only keep compacted empirical data on arrest of minors. It makes it hard for counties and states to differentiate who has been arrested multiply times.

The following study investigates the juvenile justice and questions the rehabilitative …

Old And New Insurgency Forms, Robert J. Bunker Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

This monograph creates a proposed insurgency typology divided into legacy, contemporary, and emergent and potential insurgency forms, and provides strategic implications for U.S. defense policy as they relate to each of these forms. The typology clusters, insurgency forms identified, and their starting dates are as follows, Legacy: Anarchist (1880s), Separatist—Internal and External (1920s), Maoist Peoples (1930s), and Urban Left (Late-1960s); Contemporary: Radical Islamist (1979), Liberal Democratic (1989), Criminal (Early 2000s), and Plutocratic (2008); and Emergent and Potential: Blood Cultist (Emergent), Chinese Authoritarianism (Potentials; Near to Midterm), and Cyborg and Spiritual Machine (Potentials; Long Term/Science Fiction-like). The most significant strategic implications …

Salvaging "Safe Spaces": Toward Model Standards For Lgbtq Youth-Serving Professionals Encountering Law Enforcement, Brendan M. Conner

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

From Macks Creek To Ferguson: How Illinois Can Learn From Missouri To Prevent Predatory Enforcement Practices By Municipalities, Brian Scott

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Some municipalities, including several in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area, are suspected of writing excessive traffic tickets to generate revenue.  A Missouri statute known as the Macks Creek law is intended to protect residents from ticketing practices aimed at generating revenue for municipalities.  In the aftermath of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri legislators are reexamining the Macks Creek law to make it stricter on municipalities engaged in the practice of raising revenue through writing traffic tickets.  This Comment provides background information on the Macks Creek law and compares it to similar statutes in other states.  The …

Bureaucratic Administration: Experimentation And Immigration Law, Joseph Landau

Duke Law Journal

In debates about executive branch authority and policy innovation, scholars have focused on two overarching relationships—horizontal tension between the president and Congress and the vertical interplay of federal and state authority. However, these debates have overlooked the role of frontline bureaucratic officials in advancing the laws they administer. This Article looks to immigration law—in which lower-level federal officers exercise discretion delegated down throughout federal agencies—to identify how bottom-up agency influences can inform categorical, across-the-board executive branch policy.

In this Article, I argue that decisions by frontline officers can and should be better harnessed to pair local laboratories of executive experimentation …

Location, Location, Mis-Location: How Local Land Use Restrictions Are Dulling Halfway Housing's Criminal Rehabilitation Potentia, Michael J. Mcgowan

Student Scholarship

Part I of this Article begins with a brief historical explanation of halfway houses as a model of criminal rehabilitation. Part II addresses why recidivism rates provide the most appropriate metric gauging halfway houses' success and how they apparently have failed to improve recidivism rates. Part III then delves into the body of scholarship that explains how an individual's likelihood of landing back behind bars is to some extent demonstrably tied to their location, meaning their surrounding cultural, economic, and criminogenic environment. Part IV discusses the sparse data on the sorts of neighborhoods where halfway houses ultimately end up and …

Usd Magazine Spring 2016, University Of San Diego

University of San Diego Magazine (1992- )

From the President; Torero News; Torero Athletics; Nothing but Net; Men on a Mission; Alumni News; Alumni Update; Class Notes; Torero Trek

Field Preemption And The Presumption Of Federal Action: A Three-Way Supremacy Clause Tug Of War, Joseph E. Zeis Jr.

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bikesharing And Bicycle Safety, Elliot Martin, Adam Cohen, Jan L. Botha, Susan Shaheen

Mineta Transportation Institute

The growth of bikesharing in the United States has had a transformative impact on urban transportation. Major cities have established large bikesharing systems, including Boston, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, New York City, Salt Lake City, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Washington DC, and others. These systems began operating as early as 2010, and no fatalities have occurred within the US as of this writing. However, three have happened in North America—two in Canada and one in Mexico. Bikesharing has some qualities that appear inherently unsafe for bicyclists. Most prominently, helmet usage is documented to be quite low in most …

Social Capital And Civic Participation In The Ozarks: Summary Of Findings From The Ozarks Regional Social Capital Survey, Michael Stout, John B. Harms, Tim Knapp

eJournal of Public Affairs

No abstract provided.

S.C. General Alan Wilson Addresses Human Trafficking On March 1, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2016

• The lecture will begin at 11 a.m. in Dina’s Place in the DiGiorgio Campus Center.
• As South Carolina’s Attorney General, Wilson is the state’s chief prosecutor, chief securities officer, and the state’s chief legal counsel.
• He is actively involved in promoting awareness of human trafficking in South Carolina.

Commonwealth Times 2016-02-29

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

State Of Utah, Plaintiff/Appellee, Vs. Santiage Aponte, Defendant/Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from convictions for failing to respond to an officer's signal to stop, a third degree felony; failing to stop at an accident involving injury, a class A misdemeanor; and reckless driving, a class B misdemeanor, in the Fourth Judicial District, Utah County, the Honorable Samuel D. McVey presiding

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 46, February 29, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 16, 02-29-2016, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

USM announces brewery partnership -- Students for #USMFuture give their demands to administration -- A look at Black History Month -- Melanoma is a preventable but common disease

Getting Drunk Drivers Off Illinois Roadways: Addressing The Split Of Authority Regarding 911 Tips & Investigatory Traffic Stops, Andrew J. Sheehan

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Getting drunk drivers off the road continues to be a major policy goal for police departments and the citizens they aim to protect. This is especially true in Illinois, where the number of motorists killed by drunk drivers every year remains a prevalent concern. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has failed to provide much guidance, many state courts and at least one federal circuit court have determined that police officers can pull over a suspected drunk driver based solely on a 911 caller's tip. That said, Illinois has yet to fully adopt this open-minded approach, which has left the courts, …

2015 California Climate Action Planning Conference Keynote Address, Salud Carbajal

Focus

In August 2015, Cal Poly’s CRP Department hosted the second Climate Action Planning Conference to discuss local, state, national and international climate issues. The keynote address was provided by then Santa Barbara County Supervisor Salud Carbajal�. His words framed the action�-oriented vision for the conference, and define much of what the CRP family continues to focus on as a part of their teaching and scholarship.

Walls As A Reflection Of Society And Culture, Daniel Levi, Vicente Del Rio

Focus

Beginning as an simple utilitarian element to defend a place or one's home from external threats, a wall refects a society's culture� walls express territoriality and are evident symbols of the perceived relationship between the public and private realms. Levi and del Rio discuss why understanding the meaning of walls is fundamental for planners and urban designers, and for any attempt to design and regulate place.

Focus: The Journal Of Planning Practice And Education | Journal Of The City And Regional Planning Department | Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo | Volume 12

Focus

No abstract provided.

University Honors Program News, Georgia Southern University

Honors College: News & Publications (2008-2020)

• Adventures in Independent Journal Publishing
• Alumni Update: Andres Montes
• Focused on the Target
• Math, Measles, and a Computer Simulation
• Winning an Award, Earning a Job

Who Gets To Determine If You Need Self Defense?: Heller And Mcdonald's Application Outside The House, Elizabeth Beaman

Seton Hall Circuit Review

No abstract provided.

Current Circuit Splits

Seton Hall Circuit Review

No abstract provided.

Connecting Community By Advocacy And Design, Mia Lehrer

Local Government Reconsidered

"The way we plan our cities and communicate to the public can build a sense of connection to public places. The Trust for Public Land estimates Los Angeles has just nine acres of parkland for every 1,000 residents, and that 52% of Los Angeles residents live within a ½ mile of that parklandi. While this falls between Washington D.C.’s 13.5 park acres and New York’s 4.6, many of Los Angeles’ park acres lie in large regional parks such as Griffith Park and Runyon Canyon Park, leaving much of the city park-poor. Recent research points to the importance of human connection …