GOP Rep. Paul Muxlow of Brown City, Michigan, reintroduced the bill entitled «Logan's Law» that would bar convicted animal abusers from getting another pet for five years (including post incarceration) and make it mandatory (and free) for animal shelters and other entities to check potential adopters against the Michigan
State Police database.
Not exact matches
Acknowledging there's much still to be learned about Paddock, his
state of mind, and his motivations, Safir said, «There should be a
database for
police departments and federal agencies of people who have been... mentally disturbed where before you get a gun these people have to be cleared in order to process them.»
Yaniv Erlich, a geneticist at Columbia University, was far from surprised at last week's news that
police may have found a serial murderer and rapist, California's long - sought Golden
State Killer, by tapping a public DNA
database to match crime scene DNA: Erlich had cautioned in a June 2014 article about genetic privacy, published in Nature Reviews Genetics, that GEDmatch, the website that was reportedly used, could allow for such «genealogical triangulation.»
According to the Washington Post
database, 100 people have been killed in
police shootings this year in the United
States, putting the country on pace for the most in any year since 2015.
A memorandum of understanding reached by Cuomo's office and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan agreed to not enact a
database tracking ammunition purchases, which
State Police had struggled this year to develop.
A
state Inspector General's report questioned whether
police overtime was used improperly to conduct the searches and whether officers should have used official
databases to conduct them.
The 48 - year - old Gestring, a former New York
Police Department forensic scientist, joined DCJS in July 2012 to run the agency's office that oversees the
state's DNA
database and public forensic laboratories.
Cuomo's office as well has insisted the changes announced in the MOU are surface level, in part because of the technical problems the
State Police encountered when trying to set up the
database.
Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi quickly jumped into the fray, insisting that «no provision of the SAFE Act... has been rolled back or altered due to this memorandum,» and that it merely codified what the
State Police have long been saying — the technology for the ammunition - sale
database is not yet ready, and won't be for the foreseeable future.
«The administration continues to work to enact the
database and intends to brief its legislative partners when the system is ready, but the legal responsibility for the implementation decision lies solely with the Superintendent of
State Police.»
«The law dictates that the
State Police is solely responsible for determining the manner of registration and certification of the
database.
Newsday has assembled a
database of pension costs that reveals what public agencies on Long Island pay into three
state pension systems - the Employees» Retirement System, the
Police and Fire Retirement System, and the Teachers» Retirement System.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Republicans also agreed to not implement a
State Police ammunition
database after the technology proved too cumbersome to maintain.
While Lord West's review has found no systematic failings in our procedures for checking potential suspects, it has highlighted the importance of enhancing existing cooperation to share more information between
police and immigration services and internationally across countries: - within the EU to enable British law enforcement authorities to access immigration information on existing EU
databases; - bilaterally with other member
states to mutually exchange information; - and joining up criminal records
databases throughout the EU so that our authorities can quickly identify individuals charged with crimes, no matter where in Europe they are convicted.
The surprise memorandum — which was released first by Seward's office earlier this month — stipulated the ammo
database would not be enacted after
State Police had struggled to get it on line.
A gun registration would no longer be made public without a request for a waiver and a
database with information on licenses would be housed with the Division of Criminal Justice Services, not the
State Police.
Cuomo and Senate Republicans this month approved a memorandum of understanding that agreed to enact an ammunition sale
database, provision of the law that the
State Police had struggled to develop.
Cuomo and Flanagan in a two - way memorandum of understanding agreed to not fund an ammunition purchasing
database that
State Police had struggled to develop during the course of the year.
The law also creates statewide
database of pistol permits with the
State Police, which would not be subject to the state's Freedom of Information
State Police, which would not be subject to the
state's Freedom of Information
state's Freedom of Information Law.
The agreement signed by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and top Cuomo aide Jim Malatras says the
database is being shelved for now because the
state police determined the necessary technology doesn't exist.
An agreement signed late last week by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and top Cuomo aide Jim Malatras says the idea to build a
database is being shelved for now because the
state police don't believe the technical wherewithall exits to create it.
Friedrich attacked Weprin for siding with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and
state Sen. Eric Adams (D - Brooklyn) instead of
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said the
database was a useful crime - fighting tool.
In the weeks since Governor Andrew Cuomo mentioned a new all - crimes DNA
database in his
State of the State speech last month, the administration delegated Lieutenant Governor and former Rochester police chief Bob Duffy, to make the rounds, appearing with district attorneys all across the state to rally support for the expan
State of the
State speech last month, the administration delegated Lieutenant Governor and former Rochester police chief Bob Duffy, to make the rounds, appearing with district attorneys all across the state to rally support for the expan
State speech last month, the administration delegated Lieutenant Governor and former Rochester
police chief Bob Duffy, to make the rounds, appearing with district attorneys all across the
state to rally support for the expan
state to rally support for the expansion.
Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a
database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the
state Comptroller, the
state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the
state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to
police ethics issues in Albany.
Several other ideas, like a
state hotline for sexual harassment complaints, a statewide
database of medical records and $ 4 million for a new office to
police campaign finance laws and eventually set up a system of public matching funds, have appeared in newspapers in the days ahead of Cuomo's speech.
Do
police (or the
state) have all these occurrences in some
database?
By contrast, s 50 (1) Criminal Law (Forensic Procedures) Act 1998 (S.A.) limits access to the South Australian
database to the following purposes: criminal investigation; making the information available to the person to whom the information relates; administering the
database; pursuant to an arrangement with the Commonwealth, or another
State or a Territory (presumably for criminal investigation); or for an investigation by the Ombudsman or the
Police Complaints Authority.
Criminal arrest outcomes were measured with official court records, accessed through a search of court and
police databases in Oregon and, where applicable, other
states.