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Government Executive
A House committee appears poised to advance legislation that would enshrine in law a policy banning federal agencies from asking about a job applicant’s criminal history until after a conditional offer has been made, and expand that prohibition to federal contractors. The Fair Chance Act (H.R. 1076), introduced by House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, codifies the so-called Ban the Box policy in federal law. In 2016, the Obama administration issued regulations to that effect, but the policy did not apply to private companies that do business with agencies, and can be rescinded administratively.
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The Washington Post
Hillsides blanketed in brightly colored flowers are often a blissful, at times even calming, sight. But for one small city in Southern California, the idyllic scenes have become a chaotic nightmare: The “Poppy Apocalypse.” The harbingers of destruction? Tens of thousands of flower-crazed tourists. Officials in Lake Elsinore, California, located just over an hour southeast of Los Angeles, announced recently that they had closed off access to their famed California golden poppy fields after “Disneyland size crowds” inundated the city of about 66,000 over the weekend, straining resources and creating a “public safety crisis.”
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Supply Chain Brain
Effective emergency response to a natural disaster requires rapid, coordinated action among multiple parties. Suffice to say that such a level of efficiency has been sadly lacking in many prior relief efforts. Can blockchain make it happen? Rarely does a location struck by a natural disaster lack parties willing to donate aid, in the form of food, medicine, shelter and other essential supplies. The problem is one of logistics. The 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010 saw an influx of international aid by nations, nongovernmental organizations and individuals. But the effectiveness of their efforts was undercut by the inability of all parties to communicate on a single platform. As a result, aid didn’t always get to where it was most needed in a timely fashion. Relief parties couldn’t easily match resources with demand.
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Insurance Journal
The gun industry suffered a stinging setback as Connecticut’s top court said families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre could move ahead with their lawsuit against Remington Arms Co. over its marketing of military-style Bushmaster weapons. In a first-of-its-kind decision, the state Supreme Court said the families could sue for “wrongful” marketing under a state unfair-trade-practice law. The court, reinstating a suit dismissed by a trial judge in 2016, adopted the families’ novel way around a federal law that protects the gun industry from liability.
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PEW
At Joshua Hudson’s smoothie shop, a bohemian outpost called Twisted Smoothie, customers can add a 15 mg or 30 mg shot of cannabidiol, or CBD, to their blended drinks for a few extra dollars. They also can get a mini-lecture from Hudson on the virtues of the cannabis extract, found in both hemp and marijuana, which he and other fans claim can ease a range of health problems without making users high. Despite limited research on the compound’s health benefits, hemp CBD has become a nationwide health food craze. Congress recently primed the market for more growth when it legalized hemp farming and sales nationwide. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says businesses such as Hudson’s cafe are unlawfully introducing drugs into the food supply.
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Dr. David Hillson
 Are you a "risk professional"? How do you know? Do you use the services of "risk professionals"? How can you tell they’re really professional? This article provides 10 criteria that risk practitioners and their clients can use to determine whether the risk services being offered can be described as "professional" or not. Before you start your next risk engagement, as either the provider or receiver of risk services, consider how you would answer these questions.
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M Live
Plainfield township, Michigan, is feeling sticker shock over the cost to bring safe water to areas contaminated by Wolverine World Wide. The township estimates it could cost up to $62 million to extend municipal water mains to every street in the 25 square-mile contaminated zone of Kent County, Michigan, where Wolverine’s tannery waste dumping polluted groundwater with toxic “forever chemicals.” In Michigan thus far, that’s easily the largest single expense a local government is faced with related to contamination from toxic fluorochemicals called PFAS.
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DS News
Delinquency is down while equity is up, according to the latest Loan Performance Insights report from Corelogic. According to the report, 4.1 percent of mortgages were 30 days or more delinquent as of December 2018, a 1.2 percent decline from December 2017’s 5.3 percent. Despite the decrease, recent natural disasters such as hurricanes have left states such as North Carolina, Florida and Georgia behind. According to Corelogic, 10 out of the only 12 metro areas to experience increases in serious delinquency, or loans 90 days or more past due, were located in the Southeast, in areas such as Panama City, Florida.
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Federal News Network
In 2013, the MITRE Corp. began publishing its ATT&CK framework, which provides a living knowledge base of threat actor tactics and techniques. As evidenced during November 2018’s first-annual ATT&CKcon, organizations are finding innovative use-cases for the framework. One use suggested by MITRE is to compare computer network defense capabilities while another is adversary emulation. Introduced at the correct point in the risk management life cycle, these applications can inform risk identification, assessment and response.
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