by Jo Ellen Nott
Republican Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia signed into law Senate Bill 92 (“SB 92”) on May 5, 2023, creating the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission (“PAQC”). The new oversight group is tasked with discipling and removing “far-left prosecutors” who make Georgia communities “less safe,” according …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On March 28, 2023, a criminal indictment from the Department of Justice was unsealed accusing Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, of importing thousands of opioids and other pills from abroad to her home in San Jose, California, with an intent to distribute them elsewhere in …
by Jo Ellen Nott
A police K-9 involved in the execution of a search warrant for a 27-year-old drug trafficking suspect on March 15, 2023, in Cleveland, Ohio, was given NARCAN after an exposure to fentanyl. The unnamed K-9 was taken to Westpark Animal Hospital where he was …
by Jo Ellen Nott
Oregon law enforcement stopped Nicholas Chappelle on January 30, 2022, for expired tags. When the officer ran them, Chapelle appeared in DMV records as having a suspended license.
A previous suspension had expired in 2021, but the Oregon DMV database of driver’s licenses …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On March 3, 2023, Governor Tim Walz signed legislation that will give 50,000 Minnesotans previously convicted of a felony immediate voting access. The bill restores political franchise to those who served their time without having to complete probation or parole.
Advocates of restoring …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On March 1, 2023, New York City agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 300 protesters who were penned up by NYPD officers and then brutally assaulted with batons and pepper spray and restrained with zip ties on …
by Jo Ellen Nott
Police misconduct is costing the city of Chicago nearly $40 million a year in outside legal fees. Although the city has its own in-house counsel to handle legal problems, it outsources many cases involving police violence. Defense attorney Andrew Stroth claims those outside firms …
by Jo Ellen Nott
An epidemic of police officers using excessive force in situations that do not require police brutality to subdue or arrest an individual in the United States has a gruesome death toll. In case after case, from Tamir Rice in 2014 to Philando Castile in …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On February 23, 2023, the city of Palm Beach Gardens, 77 miles north of Miami, agreed to settle with the family of slain motorist Corey Jones for $2 million dollars. Jones was shot by former police officer Nouman Raja as Jones called for assistance …
by Jo Ellen Nott
In early February of 2023, Al Holfeld, Jr., lawyer for Crystal Worship and her son Amir, announced that their federal civil rights lawsuit would be settled by the city of Richton Park, Illinois, for $12 million. The lawsuit arose from a 2019 SWAT raid …
