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In Michigan, 17-year-olds can’t vote, buy cigarettes or rent a car. But if caught by police driving while drunk or selling drugs, they are prosecuted not in juvenile court, but as adults.
Advocates have pushed to join other states in “raising the age” in Michigan’s criminal law to ensure that teenagers 17 and under end up in juvenile court, except when accused of the most serious crimes. Now, the Michigan legislature has passed a package of bills to make that change by October 1, 2021.
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Claims Journal
A plan by California’s biggest utility to cut power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season could plunge millions of residents into darkness. And most people aren’t ready.
The plan by PG&E Corp. comes after the bankrupt utility said a transmission line that snapped in windy weather probably started last year’s Camp Fire, the deadliest in state history. While the plan may end one problem, it creates another as Californians seek ways to deal with what some fear could be days and days of blackouts.
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Property Casualty 360
As smartphone ownership has increased, so too has the occurrence of identity theft targeting consumers through their phones, according to a recent report released by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re, in conjunction with Zogby Analytics.
Smartphone ownership jumped 8% during the last two years, according to the survey, which was conducted in December 2018 and reflects the responses of 1,510 adults in the U.S.
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Texas Tribune
Katherine Edmundson didn’t know her 7-year-old son was off Medicaid until she took him to the dentist for his annual cleaning in February. An employee at the front desk told her that his coverage was invalid and that her son couldn’t be seen that day. After leaving the dentist with her son's teeth still in need of a cleaning, Edmundson went home and immediately started another Medicaid application. She said she doesn't remember receiving any notice from the state's Health and Human Services Commission that her son lost coverage, and her income hadn't changed since it was last renewed.
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CBS Boston
If you hate sitting in traffic, imagine trying to get a patient to a Boston hospital during rush hour. Emergency medical technicians took WBZ-TV for a ride in an emergency response vehicle on a route they might take from many North Shore, Massachusetts, towns to the city’s major hospitals, and it’s routinely plagued with gridlock. “Traffic is obviously a challenge to get that patient to where they’re going,” said Armstrong Ambulance EMT Sean Mangan.
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Insurance Journal
Drivers for ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. are independent contractors and not employees, the general counsel of a U.S. labor agency has concluded, in an advisory memo that is likely to carry significant weight in a pending case against the company and could prevent drivers from joining a union. The recommendation by the office of general counsel Peter Robb, who was appointed to the National Labor Relations Board by President Donald Trump, was made in a memo dated April 16 and recently released.
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Government Technology
Recently, a neighbor asked whether Russia, China, North Korea and Iran really are capable of hacking into the computers that control the U.S. electricity grid. The answer, based on available evidence, is “Yes.” The follow-up question was, “How expensive will it be to prevent, and who will end up paying for it?” The answers are: Likely tens of billions of dollars, and probably us, the electricity customers. This is a major — and, in our view, vital — investment in community and national security.
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Governing
Houston’s standoff over pay parity between firefighters and police officers is coming to a crescendo after more than a year of legal battles and political posturing.
This week, thousands of firefighters received pay raises thanks to a voter-approved law to give them equal pay compared with police officers of the same rank.
But no one’s celebrating.
The raises came along with 220 layoffs — nearly 6 percent of the force — and 454 demotions within the city’s fire department. Mayor Sylvester Turner has said this was the only way the city could afford the roughly $80 million per year in additional costs.
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Network World
The city of Las Vegas’ pilot program with NTT and Dell, designed to crack down on wrong-way driving on municipal roads, is just part of the big plans that Sin City has for leveraging internet of things tech in the future, according to the city's director of technology Michael Sherwood, who sat down with Network World at the IoT World conference in Silicon Valley recently. The system uses smart cameras and does most of its processing at the edge, according to Sherwood.
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