Sentences with phrase «public officials from»

We look forward to hearing from all of the candidates about their vision for youngest generation, and are excited to offer them an opportunity to address the wide variety of stakeholders involved in the early childhood system — business and community leaders, early childhood professionals, and public officials from the legislature and state agencies.»

The government of South Korea has banned public officials from holding and trading cryptocurrencies under civil servants conduct law.

However, a defendant in an action may raise a defense of qualified immunity, which shields public officials from damages unless their conduct was unreasonable in light of law.

We should not withhold information to shield public officials from embarrassment or to hide errors or failures or because of speculative or abstract fears.

People and public officials from across Spain not only demanded high - speed rail, but competed fiercely for funding.

article, Incredulous: Watching CT Department of Education officials lecture school administrators on how to mislead parents, reported on the incredible meeting in which public officials from Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education lectured a group of school administrators about how to STOP parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scheme and then quickly shut down the meeting when a parent stood up to explain why many people feel so strongly about the significant problems associated with the SBAC testing craze,

Prohibits public officials from voting on bills that inure financial gain to themselves and related others.

It rarely works, but that doesn't stop public officials from trying.

The fractures within social studies and the ambivalence of parents will tend to deter public officials from even trying very hard.

«Those who attacked me and the other assembly members of the task - force will be prosecuted, I will make sure the law takes its course to serve as a deterrent to others who would want to prevent public officials from carrying out their mandate.»

There's an equally legitimate reason as well for a 2008 state ethics ruling that bans public officials from taking, or even just looking for, free tickets to sporting events in most cases.

State and county laws prohibit public officials from accepting gifts from individuals or entities doing business with their government agencies.

«To widely disseminate including on a dedicated website information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered since May 2015The circumstances under which stolen public funds were returned.»

He said, «President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all relevant agencies to compile documents on names of all looters with a view to promptly enforcing the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos ordering the government to release to Nigerians information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered.»

Lawyers for Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama electrical engineer and conservative political activist, argued that the per - donor caps — which currently stand at $ 48,600 to candidate committees and $ 74,600 in contributions to PACs and party committees in each two - year cycle — burden his First Amendment rights while doing little to protect public officials from corruption.

The rules are designed to prevent public officials from awarding the bond work to their favored contributors, rather than awarding that work on the basis of the best fees and interest rates charged to taxpayers.

«Privacy interests should be trumped when evoked to protect public officials from criticism.»

Mr. Yakubu contends that, the resolution of the report was contradictory, and did not measure up to the standards of good governance because, «if you look at the code of conduct, it was enacted to prevent public officials from being in conflict of interest situations.

The former MP who served from 1996 to 2004 for the Ajumako - Enyan - Esiam Constituency, was one of the most popular public officials from the Central Region during the Kufuor era.

The request reads in part: «While we believe that suspects generally are entitled to be presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction, SERAP opposes blanket non-disclosure of names of high - ranking public officials from whom some of the funds were recovered.»

«Publishing the names of public officials involved could go a long way in preventing senior public officials from turning the public treasury into a private cashbox.

While the government in some limited cases can legitimately place restrictions on the public's right to access certain information, attempts of the Nigerian authorities to justify the total closure of information related to the names of public officials from whom funds were recovered on the basis of «ongoing criminal investigation» and «presumption of innocence goes far beyond the limitations allowed under international law, and would promote secret recoveries.»

According to her, tougher punishment is not dished out to deter public officials from corruption.

A breakaway group of five state Senate Democrats who have been aligned with the Republicans are set to reintroduce an ethics package that would ban state public officials from receiving any outside income following Silver's corruption conviction.

Today, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and public officials from our community meet with him behind closed doors to decide the fate of our Puerto Rican Day Parade (which is less than 4 months away) and we in the Puerto Rican community are being double - crossed by our elected officials, once again.»

Consequently, in July 2017 Hon Justice Hadiza Rabiu Shagari following a Freedom of Information suit number: FHC / CS / 964 / 2016 ordered the Nigerian government to widely disseminate including on a dedicated website information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered since May 2015 and to disclose the circumstances under which funds were returned.»

When the judges ruled that the school officer's actions were protected under qualified immunity, which shields public officials from liability for civil damages, Gorsuch issued a colorful dissent arguing that the student should have been able to sue the officer for using excessive force.

The state constitution provides a governor the power to remove a public official from office only after a public hearing.

To some GOPers, it's reminiscent of 1994 when another little - known public official from Westchester County — George Pataki — was looking to unseat Cuomo's father, three - time Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Not exact matches

The memo also reports that the Skylab photo is the subject of an interagency review and that Department of Defense officials believed it should be withheld from public release.

Billionaire Vincent Bollore was charged by French investigators as part of a probe into the possible use of bribes in two African countries to obtain port contracts from public officials, according to a statement from his company.

But that all changed earlier this month when Florida public health officials reported a handful of cases originating from mosquito bites in the relative small, one - square - mile neighborhood of Wynwood just north of downtown Miami.

The same can not be said for the Trump administration's top health officials — a substantial departure from the Obama administration's prominent public information campaigns and unusual considering the federal government is still tasked with enforcing the law.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

Gannett — which owns USA Today and a number of other prominent U.S. titles, including the Detroit Free Press and the Arizona Republic — reportedly sent its official bid to Tribune Publishing on April 12, but the media giant decided to make the offer public on Monday after getting what it suggested was an unsatisfactory response from Tribune management.

The official said the EPA chief has alienated colleagues by jockeying for the role of attorney general, a position currently held by Jeff Sessions, who has come under frequent public criticism from Trump.

Now, California's motor vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go from testing to use by the public in June 2015.

The White House has not put out an official statement confirming the order, just as it has not confirmed that it has frozen grants and contracts at the age ncy, that the agency is not allowed to communicate with the public, or that the EPA will be barred from funding original science.

He did not shield public records from FOIA by routing official communication through a private server in his basement.

President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.

Despite the public statements from White House officials, other people close to Trump have privately voiced concerns over Muller's next move, according to a Washington Post report.

Health officials will take comments from industry stakeholders and the public on the proposed data access rules over the next two months.

Such was the sensitivity of the findings, European officials tried to block the analysis from ever reaching the public domain.

But in our interview, Baquet did say there were a few instances while he was managing editor in which he regretted holding back details from the public due to ominous warnings from intelligence officials over potential consequences.

The idea was to establish a record that will allow for better questions from senators when Cohen is summoned back for public testimony, the official said.

ROCKY HILL — Town officials are scrambling to address homeowners» complaints of noise and fumes from truckers using the Wal - Mart parking lot at Town Line Plaza as a rest stop.Although the problem has persisted for many months, it became public this week...

The ordinance seeks to establish regulation and a permitting process that would enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency or Department of Public Works to take action against scooters from companies that don't have an official permit from the city.

«I sat here and watched my house start coming apart,» Kendrick said, who sheltered with city officials in public building a block from his house.

F.B.I. officials, who had been debating all week whether to go to the public, were ultimately convinced that they had to release the photographs because the investigation was stalling and bureau analysts had finally developed clear images of the suspects from hours of video footage.

Foreign investors in particular — and even foreign officials now — are disgusted with how the Americans are mismanaging the economy and indeed, flagrantly stealing from the public domain.