Organized Retail Crime
Suggested State Legislation: This legislation allows for the amount of goods stolen to be aggregated into one charge before a defendant goes to trial. The Act also allows grouping multiple offenses...
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Suggested State Legislation: This Act is aimed at preventing local governments from designating their localities as sanctuaries for illegal aliens. The Act prohibits local governments from passing any...
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Suggested State Legislation: This Act requires a law enforcement agency that receives a report of a missing person to take certain steps to locate the missing person. It also requires a coroner having...
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Suggested State Legislation: This SSL draft was originally based on legislation proposed by the National Institute of Justice. The bill outlines protocols law enforcement can adopt to handle missing...
View ArticleJustice Center Launches Learning Sites Project
Law enforcement officers throughout the country regularly respond to calls for service that involve people with mental illnesses—often without needed supports, resources or specialized training. These...
View ArticleCold Case Register
This Act defines a "cold case" as a homicide or a felony sexual offense that remains unsolved for one year or more after being reported to a law enforcement agency and one that has no viable and...
View ArticleState Attorneys General Fight Financial Fraud
As the chief legal officers of the states, commonwealths and territories of the United States, attorneys general serve as counselors to state government agencies and legislatures, and as...
View ArticleNorth American Cooperation in Public Safety and Law Enforcement
Crime knows no boundaries. This session featured a discussion with attorneys general who are working to protect public safety at home by increasing cooperation with their North American...
View ArticleDNA Arrest Laws: Supreme Court on a Roll with Fourth Amendment Cases
This term the U.S. Supreme Court will hear at least five cases involving Fourth Amendment searches. Two involve drug sniffingdogs, one involves warrantless blood draws from DUI suspects, and another...
View ArticleImmigration Status - Cooperating with Federal Officials
CSG Committee on Suggested State LegislationSuggested State Legislation: This Act is aimed at preventing local governments from designating their localities as sanctuaries for illegal aliens. The Act...
View ArticleOrganized Retail Crime
CSG Committee on Suggested State LegislationSuggested State Legislation: This legislation allows for the amount of goods stolen to be aggregated into one charge before a defendant goes to trial. The...
View ArticleMissing Persons
CSG Committee on Suggested State LegislationSuggested State Legislation: This Act requires a law enforcement agency that receives a report of a missing person to take certain steps to locate the...
View ArticleMissing Persons
CSG Committee on Suggested State LegislationSuggested State Legislation: This SSL draft was originally based on legislation proposed by the National Institute of Justice. The bill outlines protocols...
View ArticleJustice Center Launches Learning Sites Project
Mary BranhamLaw enforcement officers throughout the country regularly respond to calls for service that involve people with mental illnesses—often without needed supports, resources or specialized...
View ArticleCold Case Register
CSG Committee on Suggested State LegislationThis Act defines a "cold case" as a homicide or a felony sexual offense that remains unsolved for one year or more after being reported to a law enforcement...
View ArticleState Attorneys General Fight Financial Fraud
Audrey WallAs the chief legal officers of the states, commonwealths and territories of the United States, attorneys general serve as counselors to state government agencies and legislatures, and as...
View ArticleNorth American Cooperation in Public Safety and Law Enforcement
Chris WhatleyCrime knows no boundaries. This session featured a discussion with attorneys general who are working to protect public safety at home by increasing cooperation with their North American...
View ArticleDNA Arrest Laws: Supreme Court on a Roll with Fourth Amendment Cases
Lisa SoronenThis term the U.S. Supreme Court will hear at least five cases involving Fourth Amendment searches. Two involve drug sniffing dogs , one involves warrantless blood draws from DUI suspects,...
View ArticleAccess to Cellphone Location in an Emergency
CSG Committee on Suggested State LegislationThis act requires a provider of wireless telecommunications to provide call location information concerning the telecommunications device of a user to a law...
View ArticlePolice Custody Death Investigations
CSG Committee on Suggested State LegislationThis act relates to investigations of deaths involving a law enforcement officer. It requires the use of outside investigators in the event of a...
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