Sentences with phrase «public agency law»

Not exact matches

The agency has issued subpoenas to firms and individuals behind specific offerings that it believes might be breaking the law, said the person who asked not to be named because the investigations aren't public.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Trade Agreement Act of 1979, Public Law 96 - 39 (July 26, 1979), prohibits Federal agencies from engaging in any standards or related activities that create unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of the United States.

While unpaid postcollege internships have long existed in the film and nonprofit worlds, they have recently spread to fashion houses, book and magazine publishers, marketing companies, public relations firms, art galleries, talent agencies — even to some law firms.

At least this is the argument of the lobbyists who are drafting and censoring laws and signing off on just who is acceptable to run the Federal Reserve, Treasury and other public - subsidy agencies.

The market needs secure public order; so the government needs law enforcement agencies and military forces.

The very laws and agencies set up to protect them from poor houses, starvation and medical negligence sweep them into a corner out of public view, where they are fed, housed and forgotten.

SI's request to see the dash - cam footage was also declined; the police department, citing a North Carolina law, said that «records of criminal investigations conducted by public law enforcement agencies... are not public records.»

Busting gambling rings is labor - intensive work for law - enforcement agencies, and there's little chance that those apprehended and found guilty will receive heavy penalties since much of the public considers gambling a victimless crime.

Also, many local health departments, public safety groups, hospitals, law enforcement agencies, and fire departments have technicians or fitting stations to help parents.

He called on well - meaning Nigerians to disregard any attempt to politicise the menace of cultism but focus instead on joining hands with the government and security agencies to bring the menace to an end in the interest of public safety while allowing the rule of law and justice to prevail in the matter.

After a meeting called at the behest of President John Mahama, the Council advised the general public to be cautious, curious, and report any suspicious activities to law enforcement agencies.

(c) Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that executive departments and agencies (agencies) immediately review existing regulations that potentially burden the development or use of domestically produced energy resources and appropriately suspend, revise, or rescind those that unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources beyond the degree necessary to protect the public interest or otherwise comply with the law.

The dueling accounts reflect an extraordinary struggle on the committee to try to shape public perceptions of the credibility of the nation's top law enforcement agencies.

As the TU notes, the Public Officers Law clearly states elected officials may not «articipate in any decision to hire, promote, discipline or discharge a relative for any compensated position at, for or within any state agency, public authority or the Legislature.&Public Officers Law clearly states elected officials may not «articipate in any decision to hire, promote, discipline or discharge a relative for any compensated position at, for or within any state agency, public authority or the Legislature.&public authority or the Legislature.»

Under the law, the MTA and the NY Power Authority are governed by independent boards whose directors are obligated to act in the «public interest» and have to approve major agency expenditures, contracts and capital expenses.

Following up on a pledge to reform Freedom of Information Law provisions, Cuomo said that he wants the Legislature to fall under the same rules as state and local agencies when it comes to releasing documents to the public.

Reinvent Albany has analyzed the Freedom of Information Law requests received by numerous New York State and City agencies in an effort to identify what agency information and data the public is interested in, and to make a case for publishing that information online.

On December 1, 2019, the agency selected by the mayor will report on all agencies» compliance with the Open Data Law, and provide a complete list of every public data set absent from the portal which was discovered during the examination.

The state Public Officers Law says a legislator may not «participate in any decision to hire, promote, discipline or discharge a relative for any compensated position at, for or within any state agency, public authority or the Legislature.&Public Officers Law says a legislator may not «participate in any decision to hire, promote, discipline or discharge a relative for any compensated position at, for or within any state agency, public authority or the Legislature.&public authority or the Legislature.»

«We urge our law enforcement agencies to ensure that those jubilating over the outcome of the legal battle do so within the ambit of law without jeopardizing public peace».

But why can't the president enforce some laws for news agencies so every story that was proven to be misleading / wrong / fake / dis - informative has to be either retracted and apologized for (not by adding one correction line, but running a whole new correction story) or fined accordingly for disinformation of general public?

In 2012, the Public Advocate's office collected and scrutinized information on more than 10,000 FOIL requests, resulting in a «Transparency Report Card» that graded each of the City agencies on their adherence to the law.

Legislators in Albany perform public service part - time from January to June each year and are allowed the hold employment positions at law firms, companies and government agencies.

MIDTOWN — A nonprofit founded by Mayor Bill de Blasio to advance his political agenda said Friday it will not comply with a subpoena from the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, one of multiple federal and state agencies investigating whether the group broke the law.

The Empire Center for Public Policy has filed a lawsuit against the M.T.A., in an attempt to compel the agency to honor its Freedom of Information Law requests for payroll data.

On November 15, the DOI released the results of an investigation detailing how NYCHA failed to inspect for the hazardous paint at its public housing facilities, and also submitted false documentation to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stating that the agency was in compliance with federal laws requiring the inspections to be performed.

In 2002, the state's highest court unanimously ruled that subpoenas served on public agencies were subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Law, but a spokesman for the city Law Department said the feds had asked City Hall to keep its subpoenas secret.

The state's Labor Law gives state agencies and public authorities broad discretion to require bidders to enter into project labor agreements (PLAs), essentially collective bargaining agreements with groups of labor unions.

«I am mystified at how an agency can push through regulations that are retroactive for a bill that hasn't even become law,» said Blair Horner of The New York Public Interest Research Group.

Local Law 28 requires City department and agency «advertising and other materials pertaining to public events to include information regarding accessibility for people with disabilities» but it does not include elected officials or Community Boards.

On June 12, Riveria and Ryan wrote DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens urging the agency to commit more resources to enforcing the idling law at the Public Bridge Authority property.

All other states have some sort of open records law on the books, but few have an agency quite like COG, which functions in part as a kind of public help desk.

And New York State Senator Brad Hoylman announced there would be a public forum on June 14 at the Senate Hearing Room «to assess the efficacy of New York State's Hate Crimes Law, how state and local government agencies are implementing and enforcing the Law, and whether amendments should be considered to expand the data collection, statistical reporting, law enforcement training requirements and / or otherwise further the Law's goals.&raqLaw, how state and local government agencies are implementing and enforcing the Law, and whether amendments should be considered to expand the data collection, statistical reporting, law enforcement training requirements and / or otherwise further the Law's goals.&raqLaw, and whether amendments should be considered to expand the data collection, statistical reporting, law enforcement training requirements and / or otherwise further the Law's goals.&raqlaw enforcement training requirements and / or otherwise further the Law's goals.&raqLaw's goals.»

DA Flynn & Crime Stoppers were joined public officials and law enforcement agencies to announce a new initiative, offering rewards for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of opioid dealers.

We will also be enhancing public safety in 2018 by ensuring that residents have law enforcement available when it is needed, with the closest agency responding to calls regardless of what hat or color uniform they wear.

The command in a statement said, «Contrary to the report which is an orchestrated attempted to disparage the Command and pitch the public against the police, it is pertinent to state unequivocally that the Police which is a law enforcement agency guided by the rule of law and duty bound to respect, protect and fulfill the rights of citizens did not play any role, under whatever guise, in the murder of the deceased.

SUNY Poly and state officials have argued that as a private non-profit, Fuller Road Management is not an official government agency and therefore technically exempt from government contracting and public disclosure laws.

New York's Public Officers Law bans former government officials from appearing before the state agencies where they worked for two years in a paid capacity, and also says state employees can not ever practice, appear before or ever even «communicate» with those agencies on matters over which they were «directly concerned» during their state employment, or which were under their «active consideration.»

Master will be working on cases involve public corruption, affirmative federal litigation and complex civil litigation, while Haren will be responsible for providing expertise on federal law, federal agencies and internal Congressional workings, per The Daily News, which quoted the attorney general's office spokesman Eric Soufer.

(b) No officer of the County Committee, District Committee or Divisional Committee or of any of their subcommittees, no member of the Executive Committee and no employee of the County Committee shall use or attempt any party position as a means of undue or improper influence to secure from any state or local agency (as those terms are defined in Public Officers Law 73) for that officer, member of the Executive Committee or employee or others with whom the person has a family, employment, business or financial relationship any benefits, privileges or exemptions not generally available to members of the pPublic Officers Law 73) for that officer, member of the Executive Committee or employee or others with whom the person has a family, employment, business or financial relationship any benefits, privileges or exemptions not generally available to members of the publicpublic.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

«Our advice has been that if the record is clearly a public record and easy to find, there is no valid reason for unnecessarily delaying disclosure... I can't say it's not heard of, but because the provision has been part of the law since 1974, agencies are generally quick to respond.»

«In fact, the need for government confidentiality may be at its zenith when a law enforcement agency is undertaking a covert investigation of individuals or organizations, where the lives of the public, cooperators and undercover officers may hang precariously in the balance,» Chief Judge Janet DiFiore wrote in the majority decision.

The state Public Officers Law that covers lobbying says no former public official «who has served as an officer or any employee in the executive chamber of the governor shall within a period of two years after termination of such services appear or practice before any state agency.&Public Officers Law that covers lobbying says no former public official «who has served as an officer or any employee in the executive chamber of the governor shall within a period of two years after termination of such services appear or practice before any state agency.&public official «who has served as an officer or any employee in the executive chamber of the governor shall within a period of two years after termination of such services appear or practice before any state agency.»

Consequently, many of the local municipalities in Ulster County requested that the Ulster County government assume the responsibility for solid waste management, and the Agency was created by the New York State Legislature pursuant to Chapter 936 of the Public Authorities Law approved December of 1986.

Since the signing of Local Law 11 last March, DoITT has worked with agencies citywide to add more than 350 new data sets to the public inventory available on NYC OpenData, as well as securing regular feeds for updates to existing data sets.