Sentences with phrase «law needs a community»

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It's a marketplace handcuffed by certificate - of - need laws that limit the number of MRI centers and hospital beds in communities, granting providers regional monopolies, and preventing insurers from clinching discounts by offering to send patients to the providers willing to lower their rates in exchange for more business.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

According to the Law of Moses, the spiritual leaders were supposed to be taking care of the widows and orphans in the community, and providing for their needs (Deut 26:12).

Any regime, including a democratic one, degenerates into what the Pope calls a «tyrant state» when its law exposes the weakest and most vulnerable members of the community» those most in need of the law's protection» to private lethal violence or other forms of oppression.

That law is a combination of reason, the needs and wants of any given society, and ingrained emotional responses based on the fact that we evolved in such a way that we thrive best as part of mutually interdependent communities.

It needs to declare what are the external and overriding criteria, based on shared human experience, that its qualified defense of communities requires; it needs something like natural law.

This prophetic instinct needs to provide the foundation of a responsible, self - challenging, socially challenging, humanly responsive community of law.

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

Any regime, including a democratic one, degenerates into what the Pope calls a «tyrant state» when its law exposes the weakest and most vulnerable members of the community — those most in need of the law's protection — to private lethal violence or other forms of oppression.

After excerpts from the president's speech in the aftermath of the Florida shooting, in which he promised to act on mental health, Kimmel said: «Tell your buddies in Congress... all the family men who care so much about their communities, that what we need are laws.

In similar fashion, he needed at least an elementary knowledge of law, for as the educated person of the community he was called upon to give legal advice, draft legal documents, and frequently adjudicate legal disputes.

For breastfeeding practices to improve, there needs to be support at every level: supportive frameworks should exist within public policy, law, the health - care system, communities, families and friends.

Allergy Law Project was the brainchild of Laurel Francoeur who approached Homa Woodrum and I two years ago about the need for reliable legal information in the food allergy community.

«Unlike District Attorney Rice, state Senator Schneiderman has never managed a law enforcement agency or an office of attorneys, and he's never had to make the tough decisions that balance the needs of the community with the needs of prosecutors.»

Our law enforcement officials and public servants need research to most effectively understand how to help communities and keep them safer.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

The Binghamton Republican said it's just one example of tougher laws needed to «drive drug dealers out» of New York communities.

At 10:30 a.m., the Assembly will hold a public hearing to examine the need for reforms to the criminal justice system to ensure fairness, improve community / police relations and to protect the safety of law enforcement officers, Assembly Hearing Room 1923, 19th Floor, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

The truth is law enforcement needs the respect of the community as much as the community needs to respect law enforcement.

The challenges facing members of the law enforcement community are greater than ever before, and we need individuals like Thomas DiNapoli in leadership positions to help officers better serve the residents of New York State.»

Community improvements, social programs, such as law enforcement, community development, and health services are service that needs much assistance in lower income communities in WesCommunity improvements, social programs, such as law enforcement, community development, and health services are service that needs much assistance in lower income communities in Wescommunity development, and health services are service that needs much assistance in lower income communities in Westchester.

To the Editor, I feel the need to respond to Legislator Ed Day's remarks concerning Harriet Cornell, Chairwoman of the Rockland County Legislature, specifically suggesting that Mrs. Cornell was in some way hostile to the law enforcement community.

«New York is the number one terror target in the world, and we need to make sure our local law enforcement have the resources they need to protect our communities,» Gillibrand said.

City Councilman Rafael Espinal, who created the bill, said such a committee is needed to help update controversial laws, as well as to address quality of life concerns from communities where DIY establishments operate.

Peers spoke out against the continuing power of «faith» schools to discriminate in admissions, the appointment of governors and the employment of staff, about homophobic bullying, about extremist (including creationist) groups setting up Free Schools with unbalanced curricula, about the need to repeal laws on collective worship and about the need to maintain community cohesion.

However, to be meaningful this must be backed up by changes in planning law that stops owners demolishing and converting pubs without even the need to apply for planning permission, otherwise, in many cases there would be no pub left for the community to bid for!

By working alongside community stakeholders and local law enforcement agencies, we've built the trust and network we need to get the facts and evidence required to act judiciously and effectively.»

«Unfortunately with the increased use of heroin and other drugs in our community, it is essential that we give law enforcement the tools it needs to recover stolen property that may have been sold to a pawnbroker to support a drug habit,» continued Legislator Savage.

And should other law - enforcement agencies — be they federal, state or local — suggest that police are needed for public safety on or near the wedding site, Steinhaus told Anderson, «it is their responsibility for those agencies to deploy the appropriate number of officers for the safety and protection of the community.»

Shelley Mayer is the Change We Need From Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abuse.

Town Board member Daniel Torres, in a Facebook posting late Thursday, said the new law restricts «local law enforcement from coordinating with ICE (U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) for the purposes of immigration enforcement» and «will ensure that ALL members of our community can contact or work with the town police in a time of need without fear of deportation.»

«From sponsoring the veterans» buyback bill and fighting until it became law, to drafting and helping pass legislation ensuring our utility workers are safe from horrific assault, I'm committed to making sure all the working men and women in my communities receive the advocacy they need in Albany.

«We have matched the needs and skills of the Columbia Law Students with the needs of the smaller municipalities, like Boston and Evans, the Erie County Clerk's foreclosure data, and the Law Center's expertise to create a project that is beneficial not just to the parties involved but to our Western New York community as a whole.

«Several other counties in the area... eight in fact... have very similar laws that were passed without the need for a referendum, haven't been challenged and are working to keep jobs in their local communities,» said Lorigo.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

City Council member Margaret Chin said, «Our neighborhoods, which are already over-saturated by late - night establishments serving alcohol, need more transparency in the liquor license granting process, not less... I urge our state elected officials to ensure that the community is consulted on any changes to the law and that all voices are heard.»

Walcott, who is the current deputy mayor for Education and Community Development, needs the waiver because of a state law that requires all school chancellors to either be certified as superintendents or receive a waiver.

«I would point out that the amount of funding that is devoted to protecting New York and making sure that law enforcement officials in New York have the resources that they need is higher than the amount of money that's provided to local communities across the country,» said Earnest.

Senator Amedore's four - pronged approach to addressing the addiction issues in our communities focuses on prevention, treatment, recovery services, and giving law enforcement the resources they need to get high level drug dealers off the streets.

But he added: «The truth is law enforcement needs to respect the community as much as the community needs to respect law enforcement.»

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Communitcommunity — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Communitcommunity, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT CommunityCommunity Center.

«We need our law enforcement to have a stronger relationship with our children, with our communities,» Thomas says.

A: The short answer is, the Town Board makes local zoning and other laws, and the Zoning and Planning Boards review project applications for conformance with the law, with common sense and the needs of the community to be protected against concerns such as traffic, drainage, ugliness and health and safety threats.

With a growing consensus in the global health community that Hepatitis C (HCV) could be eliminated, a new report from the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University highlights a key missing element needed to achieving complete eliminationâ $ «adequate surveillance and monitoringâ $ «and explains how modest investments would improve lives and save money.

As these efforts are replicated in other communities, less money will be needed for law enforcement and incarceration, making more money available for education and healthy economic development.

«As the world community pursues new sustainable development goals, policymakers need to know who is leading and who is lagging on energy and environmental challenges,» said Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University.

«Health centers in the opt - out states will face an ongoing struggle to meet the need for care in medically underserved communities as a result of the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues in 2014 alone,» said Sara Rosenbaum, JD, the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy at SPHHS and a co-author of the report.

Laws need to be made or revised to better reflect community interests and concerns.

April 5, 2013 • The Obama administration said it needed to cut funding for the towers — mostly in small communities — because of $ 637 million in budget cuts mandated by law.

It is in charge of admitting new members, evaluating the compliance of current members, the arbitration of various rules and by - laws of the OFCS, oversight of the financial needs of the OFCS, working as liaison between the society and the film industry, media and online community, and the general administrative functions of overseeing the OFCS.