Sentences with phrase «against public oversight»

School choice opponents say that «choice» not only siphons resources from traditional systems but also promotes segregation, discriminates against students with the most severe disabilities, and fights against public oversight.

Not exact matches

SYRACUSE, NY (02/13/2013)(readMedia)-- CSEA — New York's leading union — has filed a lawsuit against Onondaga County, challenging the transfer of the county's public nursing home, the Van Duyn Home & Hospital, to a local development corporation — a non-regulated shell corporation that has little oversight and no accountability to taxpayers.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

Those against the law also raised the familiar criticism that charter schools would be free to use the new local dollars without the accountability and oversight required of traditional public schools.

This includes sending taxpayer dollars to fund private and religious schools through voucher programs and fighting against effective charter school policies in favor of a charter sector with little public oversight and accountability.

«The public is clearly against the abusive practices that take place in the commercial pet - breeding industry, yet we've allowed them to exist with little to no oversight or concern for the welfare of the animals that they've churned out for far too long.

A lone dissenting judge in Goodwin warned for the need of greater judicial oversight in order to protect the public's right against unreasonable seizure, and Mackey says that too is a welcome compromise when it comes to curtailing impaired driving.

For example, where a public agency commences a disciplinary action against a health professional, and requests protected health information as part of its investigation, the disclosure made be made to the agency under paragraph (d) of this section (relating to health oversight) even if the method of making the request is through the proceeding.

Moreover, doctrinal entrenchment is particularly problematic in the FISA courts, where secrecy and institutional context indicate that outside efforts at doctrinal reform are less likely to be effective than they are with courts that publish their opinions.35 Unlike published opinions, secret opinions can not provoke the public into lobbying for a legislative override36 or judicial overruling37 — two important paths of legal reform.38 Perhaps to hedge against the risks of limited external oversight, FISA limits FISC and Court of Review judges to non-renewable, seven - year terms, 39 a provision suggesting that Congress envisioned a FISA court whose membership would be responsive to shifting factual circumstances and policy priorities.40 Stare decisis, which requires judges to adhere to interpretations of law that they might otherwise reject as unjust or unpersuasive, constrains these judges» ability to adapt to such factual and policy shifts.

Finally, in the interest of maintaining public oversight of law enforcement's use of such surveillance technology, EFF recommends that Congress enact a transparency policy that requires law enforcement agencies to produce annual reports on the number of times an agency uses cell - site simulators, as well as against whom, when, where, and how.