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On Wednesday, architects presented county commissioners with a rough draft for a new Law and Justice Center building that would house the Sheriff's Office and county courts, leaving the city of Bozeman out of the building. The proposal would take plans drafted in 2016 for a new Law and Justice Center ...

If you plan to hit the road this Easter weekend, here's something you'll want to know. There is a proposal on the governor's desk to strengthen the current Move Over law. State Trooper Jesse Thornton has seen it too many times; motorists whizzing by while he's handling a traffic stop. "There are cases they ...

Even though not required by the law, we have informed the CCS that we are making a voluntary notification no later than 16 April 2018 to continue to cooperate and engage with the CCS. The CCS said it has the power to unwound or modify a deal if it sees that its completion will substantially weaken ...

... Zulkiflee SM Anwarul Haque, known popularly as Zunar, has been slapped with sedition charges, travel restrictions and a ban on nine of his comic books. Malaysia already has a plethora of laws that can been used to control media and individual freedoms, Varughese said. "There is no need for this law.

When landlords can choose among qualified applicants, their biases may come into play — and that can lead to discrimination, the law's proponents say. Existing laws prohibit landlords from choosing tenants based on characteristics such as race, gender and disability. But proponents of Seattle's law ...

EU privacy laws are set to undergo their biggest overhaul since being created in 1995. The new framework, entitled the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), comes into effect on May 25, 2018 and will drastically change how organizations handle the personal data they collect and use. The GDPR ...

The measure essentially frees parents to parent like every generation that preceded them, before paranoia infiltrated the social consciousness and paralyzed parents with fear of public scorn and reprisal from law enforcement. Under the new law in Utah, which is the first of its kind in the nation and takes ...

The bill specifies what constitutes child neglect in the state, and what does not. Under the law, neglect does not include “permitting a child, whose basic needs are met and who is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities” such as going to ...

Wagner Construction previously had been fined by the Public Service Commission for violating the One-Call law, commissioners said. In an email to ... Commission Chairman Randy Christmann said the state Legislature increased the maximum fine from $5,000 to $25,000 for violations of the One-Call law.

The letter goes on to say the company believes many of the unlicensed businesses are protected under state law until next January because they are cannabis cooperatives. Under the state's old medical marijuana laws, cooperatives were non-profit entities created solely to provide cannabis to members.

Some free-speech advocates are afraid that new laws either in force or being considered in Germany, France and even the United Kingdom could accelerate this problem. In all three countries, legislators say they are concerned about hate speech, online harassment, and fake news, but the definition of ...

A dispute between the owners of a Philadelphia shopping mall and a company looking to open a medical marijuana dispensary should not be remanded to state court, a federal judge has ruled, saying the fight “tee[s] up a fundamental clash between state and federal law.” U.S. District Judge Gene Pratter of ...

PHOENIX - Renters may soon have a lot less time to dispute deposit refunds if a proposed law is adopted. House Bill 2263 would allow renters 60 days from the end of their lease to dispute the amount of the deposit a landlord has returned to them, or waive their right to protest or in extreme cases, sue.

On the last day of the 85th legislative session, protesters opposed to Senate Bill 4 — the "sanctuary cities" law — fill up the rotunda of the state Capitol in ... and it prohibits local entities from pursuing “a pattern or practice that 'materially limits' the enforcement of immigration laws” or prohibits “assisting or ...

Opponents of the proposed laws, including groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the ACLU, and the Free Speech Coalition, a lobbying groups that represents the adult industry, believe the law is not only misguided, but potentially unconstitutional. The bill's ...

Chile has created a new law protecting the waters along its 6,400km (4,000 mile) coastline. The outgoing president, Michele Bachelet, signed the decree, which creates nine marine reserves. President Bachelet, who is ending her term of office this week, said that Chile needed to establish the basis on ...

I'm sure most of you will remember that famous scene in The Godfather Part II when mobster Frank Pentangeli, also known as Frankie Five Angels, is testifying against his boss, Michael Corleone, at a US Senate hearing. To stop him, the don secretly flies in Pentangeli's brother from Sicily and has him ...

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2018 file photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks in Palmyra, Mo. Missouri lawmakers are returning to the Statehouse for the first time Monday, Feb. 26, 2018 since Greitens was indicted, with plans to discuss assembling a committee whose investigation could lead to his ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The director of the state Ethics Commission said a bill before Alabama lawmakers could open up a potentially wide loophole in state ethics law by carving out an exemption for people doing economic development work. “I think it's a bad bill that weakens the ethics law ...

It's those heartless sweeps that California sanctuary laws aim to stop while working within the confines of existing federal law. And it's those state laws that Sessions is now trying to target. Unfortunately, the attorney general ignores the critical need to build trust between police and immigrant communities, ...

Mark Wallheiser From left, Tony Montalto and wife Jennifer, parents of victim Gina Montalto, 14, and Ryan Petty who's daughter 14-year-old Alaina Petty who were both killed during the Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School shooting, comfort each other as they stand next to Florida Governor Rick Scott ...

Nassar's serial molestation of hundreds of young female patients, including some who tried in vain to raise concerns with adults, is provoking calls to expand and toughen Michigan's law that mandates certain people to report suspected child abuse to authorities. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) The Associated ...

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed into law an anti-defamation bill that makes it illegal to attribute responsibility for or complicity during the Holocaust to the Polish nation or state. The law is designed to address public speech that falsely accuses Poland of Nazi crimes during the German invasion.

Along with funding more school security and mental health services, the Florida bill raise requires a three-day waiting period for firearm purchases (with some exceptions), bans the sale or possession of bump fire stocks, gives law enforcement the authority to seize weapons from potentially dangerous ...