Sentences with phrase «criminal justice officials»

«The Handbook was developed by a working group of federal / provincial / territorial criminal justice officials in consultation with criminal justice professionals.

Cantrell can work with criminal justice officials to provide better alternatives to incarceration and stronger re-entry programs.

Information Sharing to Make Colorado Schools Safer In 1994, an amended federal law opened the door for Colorado to enact a law this year to allow school and criminal justice officials to share information about violent and disruptive students.

Mr. Cuomo also has high regard for Janet DiFiore, the district attorney of Westchester County, and Denise E. O'Donnell, a former federal prosecutor from Buffalo who is the Paterson administration's top criminal justice official.

Not exact matches

According to prepared statements from the Justice Department, an official at the DOJ said it needs more help catching criminals who use the secretive currency.

On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, could end up cooperating with government officials.

Neither the National Offender Management Service nor the Youth Justice Board were able to supply information on the number of official complaints of sexual abuse in custody or the number of investigations, criminal charges or convictions following a complaint.

The Cuomo administration's handling of complaints against Jay Kiyonaga, a former Division of Criminal Justice Services official, has prompted concern about a pattern of protection of alleged harassers.

And the measure would have schools consult with state law enforcement officials at the Division of Criminal Justices to create a model curriculum focused on gang violence prevention.

Karol Mason, a top official in the Obama administration's justice department, will become the first black and first woman president of Manhattan's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, trusteejustice department, will become the first black and first woman president of Manhattan's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, trusteeJustice, trustees said.

A top official at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who was found to have threatened female employees with physical violence and engaged in years of sexual harassment, racism and ageism was not disciplined by the agency, which instead punished two women who provided testimony about the case to the state IG's office.

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Marc Molinaro called on Cuomo to apply the «Vance Standard» to the employees of the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who allegedly suffered abuse from a top official — including two women who claim they were victims of reprisal by the agency itself.

The Queens District Attorney's Office has resisted any calls for substantive criminal justice system reform, because no elected official dares to stand up to District Attorney Brown or the powerful Democratic Party county committee that supports him.

ALBANY — Three months ago, Akeem Browder said it was an «honor» to have the story of his brother Kalief told at Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's State of the State address and to have officials vow to change the criminal justice system.

And yet, the WFP's top official says there are a lot of things to celebrate as the year ends, pointing to a growing progressive advocacy movement ranging from climate change to criminal justice reforms.

Elected officials promised us that his story would be a turning point and that New York would fundamentally transform a criminal justice system designed to criminalize low - income black and brown New Yorkers and then place a bounty, through the money bail system, on our freedom.

«There's a feeling that the system of criminal justice, the officials in criminal justice system, are too close to law enforcement.

Instead, officials said, the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, seek to balance the goal of fairer punishment, laid out by Melissa Mark - Viverito, a Democrat who is the Council speaker, with the Police Department's desire to maintain the discretion that officers use in making arrests, for even seemingly trivial offenses, when they deem it necessary.

Fitzpatrick says prosecutors across the state are willing to talk to state officials about programs to help teens caught up in the adult criminal justice system.

Last December, the state inspector general, Catherine Leahy Scott, wrote a letter informing the criminal justice agency's deputy commissioner that the official, Brian J. Gestring, had created an environment «rife with incidents of sexual harassment, ageism, racism, and threats of retaliation and physical violence.»

A state investigation of Brian Gestring, a senior official with the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, found that he had created an environment «rife with incidents of sexual harassment, ageism, racism, and threats of retaliation and physical violence.»

Also at 11 a.m., elected officials and activists will launch the «Raise the Age New York» campaign — a movement to increase the age at which teens are prosecuted as adults in the criminal justice system, outside Manhattan Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, Lower Manhattan.

Federal prosecutors have launched «an assault on the criminal opacity of Albany,» in the words of one Justice Department official, and could take the unusual step of producing a grand - jury report on systemic public corruption in the state Capitol.

Double jeopardy is a pretty fundamental element to the US criminal justice system, but does it apply to a US President (or other impeachable official) and the trial - like impeachment proceedings in Congress?

Lawmakers and administration officials have cited the complexity of the criminal justice matters being proposed, saying more time is needed to parse through language (lawmakers and Cuomo may be wary of again taking up a complex issue so quickly following the 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act had to be amended to exclude police officers from the measure).

At 9:15 a.m., NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and religious officials who are members of the Bronx Clergy Criminal Justice Roundtable and the New York City Clergy Roundtable are scheduled to meet; Bronx Christian Fellowship church, 1015 E. Gun Hill Rd., the Bronx.

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The meeting began quickly as the Legislature breezed through a number of smaller budgetary matters including the official acceptance of grants from the New York State Office of Children and New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.

The Division of Criminal Justice Services has fired a top official there after it was reported he was never disciplined following repeated sexual harassment allegations.

The event was witnessed by numerous elected officials and criminal justice advocates.

Officials at the state's Department of Criminal Justice Services did not immediately respond to Klein's criticism.

The following day, Governor Andrew Cuomo also held a NaturalizeNY event at John Jay College of Criminal Justice with immigration advocates and elected officials.

Washington (CNN)- Federal prosecutors can no longer obtain search warrants for information obtained by journalists unless reporters are the subject of a criminal investigation, a Justice Department official said Friday.

Officials compared it to the «broken window» theory of criminal justice.

Another problem is the continued stigmatization of addiction, which contributes to lawmakers, criminal justice system officials and insurers underfunding and underutilizing prevention and medical treatment programs.

«The criminal charges against MDEQ officials are one step towards justice for the families of Flint who were poisoned as a result of the actions of Governor (Rick) Snyder's administration,» U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, said in a statement.

District officials say it's evidence that their goal of keeping young people out of the criminal justice system whenever possible is starting to show results.

Advocates have pressured school officials and policy - makers to end these suspensions, expulsions, and school - based arrests, which they say push too many students into the criminal justice system — a process commonly referred to as the «school - to - prison pipeline.»

Users either receive authorization from FMCSA to access CDLIS, or may receive it, if they are law enforcement agencies, from their State's criminal justice information system (CJIS), for enforcing FMCSA CDL regulations as part of their official duties [e.g., State officials enforcing regulations in support of the FMCSA Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP)-RSB-.

Established in 2001, it was created by the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 with the idea of merging the 700 probation officers who handle family court welfare work, 810 guardians ad litem who represent children's interests in child abuse and care cases, and the children's branch of the Official Solicitor's Department.

In 2013, Specter launched the U.S. - European Criminal Justice Innovation Program, sponsoring weeklong tours of European prisons for U.S. corrections officials, judges and lawmakers.

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Also, Drinker Biddle bolsters its white - collar criminal defense and corporate investigations practice; Hogan Lovells adds to its litigation, arbitration, and employment practice with a former GC; and a former Justice Department official rejoins Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in Washington, D.C..

Courts «view jury nullification as a pernicious element in the criminal justice system... the jury's official role in court proceedings is limited solely to judging the facts of the case and applying the law as given by the judge to those facts» (Travis Hreno, «Necessity and Jury Nullification» (2007) 20 CJLJ 351 at para. 2)

In addition to the official IAEG global indicators — measuring the proportion of victims of violence that report their victimization to the police as well as unsentenced detainees as a proportion of the overall prison population — WJP's Index scores provide a holistic picture of the accessibility, affordability, impartiality, and effectiveness of civil justice systems, and of the capacity of criminal justice systems to investigate and adjudicate criminal offenses through an impartial system that protects the rights of victims and the accused.

It has been well over a month since an array of lawyers, academics and authors met in Andover, Mass., for the Justice Robert Jackson Conference on the Planning for Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals, but the group remains as committed as ever to seeking the prosecution of Bush Administration officials for war crimes.

Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 brought its provisions into domestic law with the result that prosecutions can be brought wherever the offence occurred, if the accused is a public official of any state.

In addition, it is plausible that this proposed process may serve as a form of deterrence against misconduct by officials within the criminal justice system.

Justice officials in Ottawa were forced to hold their noses and churn out law and order legislation that was inherently flawed, doomed to eventual failure, contributing to the scorched earth of criminal jJustice officials in Ottawa were forced to hold their noses and churn out law and order legislation that was inherently flawed, doomed to eventual failure, contributing to the scorched earth of criminal justicejustice.

The conduct of Justice Bernd Zabel wearing a Donald Trump baseball cap in court has prompted official complaints from Professor Gus Van Harten of Osgoode Hall Law School, the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, the Criminal Lawyers» Association, and Professor David Tanovich and colleagues at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law.