Sentences with phrase «justice measures including»

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Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

Hanna joins former Utah governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, HP CEO Meg Whitman and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney in signing the amicus, which is being filed with the Supreme Court as justices prepare to take on several court cases challenging same - sex marriage laws, including the controversial Proposition 8 measure in California and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

The Department of Investigation assisted with the matter, and DOI Commissioner Mark Peters said in a statement that Friday's sentencing represented «a measure of justice for the brutal acts perpetrated by former correction employees, including high - ranking officials.»

The lack of an agreement comes after Assembly Democrats sought a number of measures designed to change criminal justice procedures, including a special prosecutor to handle certain cases as well as new requirements for grand jury transparency when an indictment is not issued.

In the Assembly Saturday, meanwhile, the house took eight hours to complete two bills, including an omnibus measure that had hundreds of unrelated items stuffed into it, including some of the more controversial measures involving criminal justice and education issues.

At the celebration, which involved various stakeholders including Justice Development and Peace Initiative (JDPI), Adesua said government took the step as part of measures aimed at ensuring that large percentage of Ekiti residents are accessible to safe water.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced new measures to prevent school suspensions, including more training in restorative justice practices for school police officers and staff, and behavioral health treatment options for high school students.

Cuomo is considering including the measure in a justice reform package he is set to unveil on Wednesday in his State of the State / budget address.

Several other measures await votes, including bills to address campus sexual assault, reform the juvenile justice system and ban the sale of toys with potentially toxic chemicals.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo put a number of progressive issues into his state budget proposal, including early voting measures, reforming the criminal justice system to end cash bail and the Dream Act to give college aid to the children of undocumented immigrants.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

These included freeing the 99 % of British firms who do not deal with Europe from the burden of EU regulations, opting out of all 135 of the EU's justice and home affairs measures, and having «a general emergency pull - out where we can say no — a permanent constitutional opt out.»

In the Democratic - led Assembly, meanwhile, criminal justice concerns include a focus on reform efforts, such as moving criminal cases involving 16 and 17 year olds to juvenile court, a measure that has stalled at the Capitol.

All these measures, and more, were approved by the Ministry of Justice, and are included in a manual just revealed after a five - year campaign based on the freedom of information act.

Cuomo, meanwhile, praised the deals reached over the weekend including a temporary takeover of NYRA, the creation of the Justice Center, a measure that would close a child pornography loophole and one that would clamp down on online bullying.

Cox says the new two - day APD training for officers includes a remedial on implicit bias: how unconscious attitudes and beliefs can affect the everyday judgment and decision - making of police officers, who will now learn how to cast those old measures of character aside and use their discretion to divert low - level offenders from the criminal justice system into coordinated, managed, health - based services.

Cuomo appears to be holding firm to include affordable housing measures and criminal justice reform in the spending plan.

Such legislation includes a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice as adults, creation of a state DREAM Act to provide state tuition assistance to the college kids of undocumented immigrants and measures to strengthen the state's abortion laws, the Cuomo aide said.

Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo put a number of progressive issues into his state budget proposal, including the Dream Act, to give college aid to the children of undocumented immigrants, early voting measures and reforming the criminal justice system to end cash bail.

The new school discipline measures were praised by a number of elected officials and advocates on Friday, including New York Civil Liberties Union director Donna Lieberman, who wrote that New York was officially charting a different path from South Carolina by embracing restorative justice and aiming to lower suspensions.

Several ministers, including Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, voted against the measure which was carried by a majority of 254.

Recently, E4E advocated to include measures of school climate in New York's state ESSA plan and successfully advocated for the expansion of a restorative justice pilot program to three additional districts in the city.

And some school boards — including those overseeing the Los Angeles and San Diego unified school districts — are passing measures like a «school climate bill of rights,» which, among other things, mandates that schools employ restorative justice as an alternative to traditional discipline when students get into fights or cause other trouble.

«The exclusive focus on test scores as the measure of educational quality should be replaced with the use of multiple performance measures including rates of graduation, college attendance, post-school employment, criminal justice system involvement, etc.,» Schaeffer said in an email.

Whereas justice is by its nature reactive, restorative practices also include preventive measures designed to build skills and capacity in students as well as adults.

This includes the American Federation of Teachers, with the help of another group of so - called social justice players to lobby against the accountability and standardized testing measures that have helped more children gain high - quality education.

Justice claims that publishers «directly discussed, agreed to, and encouraged each other to collective action to force Amazon to raise its e-book prices» and they say the defendants also «took steps to conceal their communications with one another, including instructions to «double delete» e-mail and taking other measures to avoid leaving a paper trail.»

A strong ethical case can be made that if nations have duties to limit their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions, a conclusion that follows both as a matter of ethics and justice and several international legal principles including, among others, the «no harm principle,» and promises nations made in the 1992 UNFCCC to adopt policies and measures required to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system in accordance with equity and common but differentiated responsibilities, nations have a duty to clearly explain how their national ghg emissions reductions commitments arguably satisfy their ethical obligations to limit their ghg emissions to the nation's fair share of safe global emissions.

Besides being a longtime advocate for televising oral arguments, Roth keeps a steady drumbeat of pressure on the court for his group's objectives, which include live or same - day audio of arguments in major cases and greater transparency measures regarding the justices» potential conflicts of interest.

With measures including three yearly reviews and the creation of an independent expert panel to advise on the appropriate rate, The Ministry of Justice has promised that the 100 % compensation principle will be supported by the Bill.

However, in Vaughan, while apparently acknowledging this difference, Lord Justice Wilson suggested that «equality» should have been measured against a total of all the assets, including the parties» pensions (net of costs), in a single balance sheet, which implicitly treated all forms of assets (pensions and capital) as comparable / interchangeable:

Factor 4.1, «Equal treatment and absence of discrimination,» measures whether individuals are free from discrimination - based on socio - economic status, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, or gender identity - including with respect to public services, employment, court proceedings, and the justice system.

The recently released report from the Legal Services Corporation, The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - income Americans, includes notable findings regarding the legal needs of veterans.

(a) an internal focus on access to justice as a strategic objective underpinning all of the Law Society's work, which will include: (i) designating appropriate resources to enhance the Law Society's approach to developing access to justice objectives integrated across program areas; (ii) strategically reviewing, reconsidering and, where appropriate, amending the Law Society's rules, regulations, policies and practices to foster change and innovation and achieve the Law Society's access to justice objectives; and (iii) developing metrics to measure the effectiveness of actions taken; and.

The meeting was organized around three main themes: conceptual issues around the concept of the rule of law; efforts to measure the rule of law — including the new World Justice Project Index — and empirical work that uses the measures; and practical issues related to rule of law implementation, including the relationship of theory to practice.

The proposals, set out in Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders, include: rewarding early admissions of guilt with up to 50 % reduction in sentence; increased use of restorative justice measures; introducing reforms to make offenders directly compensate victims of crime; and simplifying the sentencing framework so that judges have more discretionary powers.

The TUC is calling on the government to adopt a series of measures including: abolishing employment tribunal fees to give more people access to justice; reinstating provisions in the Equality Act which placed a duty on employers to protect workers from third party harassment; giving employment tribunals the power to make wider recommendations; and extending the full range of statutory employment rights to all workers.

The legal issues include child trafficking, crime victimization (gender - based violence, sexual abuse, rapes, crimes in housing camps), unlawful evictions, inadequate housing, dangerous deportations (leading to issuance of precautionary measures by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights), immigration (e.g. need for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) extensions and redesignations in the U.S.), and access to justice and the courts.

Indigenous representatives consented to the package of measures in the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)-- which included discriminatory provisions which confirmed extinguishment of native title — on the basis of there being a broader response to Indigenous social justice issues.

As such, in order to measure gains in this area effectively, it is crucial to include justice targets and indicators in the Closing the Gap framework.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined the efficacy of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care - Adolescents (MTFC - A)[now called Treatment Foster Care Oregon - Adolescents (TFCO - A)-RSB- on school attendance and homework completion in juvenile justice girls who were referred to out - of - home care.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Multisystemic Therapy (MST) delivered through a community health center was compared to usual services delivered by the Department of Juvenile Justice in the treatment of 84 serious juvenile offenders and their families.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Over a 1 - year period, a four - treatment condition randomized design evaluated the outcomes for family court with usual services, drug court with usual services, drug court with Multisystemic Therapy (MST), and drug court with MST enhanced with contingency management for adolescent substance use (as measured by self - report and urine screens), criminal behavior (as measured by the Self - Report Delinquency Scale and arrest records), symptomatology (as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist), and days in out - of - home placement (as documented in criminal justice records).

(d) may take any measures that the Chief Justice believes are reasonably necessary to maintain public confidence in the Court, including, but not limited to, temporarily restricting another Judge to non ‑ sitting duties.