Sentences with phrase «enforcement agency enforcement»

Most, though not all, such cases are commenced as «follow on» cases only after a party has pleaded guilty or there has already been Competition Bureau or other enforcement agency enforcement, such as by the Department of Justice in the United States.

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Under a program called Secure Communities, state and local law enforcement agencies shared arrest information with federal immigration authorities, and detained immigrant criminal offenders.

The FBI and state and local law enforcement are most in need; the National Security Agency has much stronger tools for breaking encryption overseas.

Marino was under fire after reports emerged that he'd boosted a law that eventually made it harder for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to freeze certain suspicious shipments, which critics say made federal efforts to fight opioid abuse more difficult.

Republicans view Cordray's position as the sole figurehead atop an enforcement agency created by the Dodd - Frank Act as the symbol of postrecession regulatory overreach under President Barack Obama.

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday began testing the use of body cameras by its employees at nine locations, potentially leading to a broad rollout by the nation's largest law enforcement agency that would make it the first federal agency to use the devices on a large scale.

As I reported yesterday, law enforcement agencies like the FBI have warned hospitals and medical providers about the industry's widespread IT vulnerabilities.

There's a big hurdle standing in the way of every brewer who wants to blend pot and beer, though: the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

Law enforcement agencies have reportedly torpedoed efforts to allow commercial drones to fly over public crowds because of concerns over the ability to track drones remotely.

It also requires cooperation between different kinds of organizations — for example, between companies and law enforcement agencies.

If the FAA can't come up with tracking requirements that garner broad approval, it increases the likelihood that law enforcement agencies will stymie new regulations over security concerns.

Clients have included national and local governments, military institutions, public security agencies, law enforcement and police agencies in over 70 countries.

GPS trackers have been embraced by various people and has been utilized for personal use, commercial use [for tracking of limousines and vehicles used for rental services to prevent theft, Government agencies have been using trackers for law enforcement duties.

The lack of increased funding to the agency's tax compliance and enforcement branch means that the IRS has 25 % fewer auditors than it in 2010, and that revenue from audits has declined 41 % to $ 7.3 billion, the lowest amount since 2002, according to agency data.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.

A new encryption bill draft could force Apple to help the FBI, among other law enforcement agencies,

With such limited resources, the agency tends to concentrate most of its enforcement energy on the areas where it typically sees noncompliance and stands the best chance of collecting: high - income households.

The controversial bill not only allows officers to question a people about their residency status but also allows police chiefs, sheriffs, constables, and jail administrators to be charged with a Class A misdemeanor if they refuse to comply with a federal detention request from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

PARIS — Better information - sharing between countries, law enforcement agencies, financial services companies and the tech industry will help combat financing for the Islamic State group and al - Qaida, a senior international official said Thursday.

Rather than looking to replace police officers on the beat — as portrayed in Robocop — iRobot is looking at extending the capabilities of law enforcement agencies, Phelps added.

While the agency has not sued JPMorgan, the enforcement unit began drafting charges after settlement talks broke down in recent weeks, people briefed on the case said.

The agency is expected to announce that one of Mr. Meister's deputies, Gretchen Lowe, will become the acting enforcement director.

Republicans said they wanted to release the document to promote transparency and hold law enforcement accountable, but Democrats have characterized it as a thinly veiled attempt to distract the public and discredit the agencies investigating the president and his associates.

The news comes from a report issued Thursday by the Secure Our Smartphones («S.O.S.») Initiative, an international partnership of law - enforcement agencies, elected officials, and consumer advocates headed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, and London Mayor Boris Johnson.

According to former employees, Facebook, Google and Twitter all worry that if they are public about their true level of cooperation with Western law enforcement agencies, they will face endless demands for similar action from countries around the world.

In the absence of diplomatic enforcement, the DNC breach is another reminder that government agencies and non-profit organizations need to proactively prepare for hacking attempts from professional, sophisticated adversaries.

Equifax said in its statement that it was working with law enforcement agencies and has hired a cyber-security firm to investigate the breach.

The attorneys say that the new privacy policy threatens to «invade consumer privacy» and claim it might force legal and law enforcement agencies to abandon their GMail addresses and Google apps for other digital platforms.

With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys» offices, and state and local partners, it is the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud.

«ICE does not conduct sweeps or raids that target aliens indiscriminately,» Byrd reiterated, an assertion the agency has been making more frequently in the wake of increased immigration enforcement operations.

The FCC only allows the devices, which are commonly known as «stingrays,» to be used by U.S. law enforcement agencies.

The Obama administration Justice Department, for instance, has opened 23 investigations of law enforcement agencies, including police departments in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri, for unconstitutional practices and has reached court - enforceable consent decrees with many of them.

The sheriff's office has reportedly asked the federal Drug Enforcement Agency for help with the case.

The synthetic opioid fentanyl is so powerful that it could cause accidental overdoses in the very first responders who trying to save its victims, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) warned in new guidelines released Tuesday.

She spent 7 1/2 years with the agency before taking a year off from law enforcement.

According to the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), the gang targeted financial transfers and ATM networks from late 2013 by using a series of malware attacks called Anunak and Carbanak, before more recently adapting security - testing software called Cobalt Strike into heist - ready malware.

CBP also searches people on behalf of other federal law enforcement agencies, sending its findings back to partners in the DEA, FBI, Treasury and the National Counterterrorism Center, among others.

The tool would deploy a fake app to thwart enforcement agencies that were attempting to crack down on the service.

Cyber crime ignores borders by its nature, and fighting it requires an unusually high level of cooperation between the companies under attack, the private security firms they hire for protection and investigations, and the law enforcement agencies in multiple countries that try to track hackers down.

Despite acrimonious relations between Russia and the United States in recent years, experts on cyber security in both countries say their law enforcement agencies and private firms had been working together more closely behind the scenes to fight financial fraud and other crimes committed online.

The publication said that the researchers reported the data breach and spammers to law enforcement, but that the researchers «can not discuss those elements, because the agencies involved can not comment on pending or ongoing investigations.»

For the 1997 - 2000 period, for instance, attorneys at the agency's enforcement division brought civil actions against 2,989 respondents.

Last week, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in San Diego, Taser International, which makes stun guns, body cameras, and digital evidence storage software for law enforcement agencies around the world, met with its customers, police and other law enforcement personnel, to discuss current products and ideas for future products.

Eyeris, another company in this space, has already sold its flagship software, EmoVu, to federal law - enforcement agencies for use in interrogations.

VieVu, founded in 2007 by ex-Seattle police officer and former Taser employee Steve Ward, has about 4,000 law enforcement agencies in 17 countries using its body cameras and digital video storage.

Coincidentally, earlier this year the three - time Inc. 5000 company made its first sale of the DDM4 to law enforcement agencies, selling to the Missouri State Police and North Dakota Highway Patrol.

In response, the Obama administration created something called the Vulnerabilities Equities Process, an interagency review to decide when the U.S. should reveal a vulnerability it had found and when it should keep it secret for use by intelligence or law enforcement agencies.

Stoyanov's team provides «technical assistance» to foreign law enforcement agencies, it said, but it was «not aware of any activities where Mr Stoyanov would have shared information with any organization that wasn't specifically tied to an active cyber-criminal investigation.»

Says Frank Gorman, an attorney with the FTC,» [The FTC] houses a database of scams that helps law enforcement officials determine how widespread a particular scam may be and whether or not the FTC or other agency will file suit.»

The National Bureau of Investigation, a Philippine federal law - enforcement agency, did not immediately respond to voice mail and email messages sent to its Manila regional offices.