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Governing
The facts at first seem unambiguous: A motorist is caught with five pounds of methamphetamines, a Schedule Two controlled substance under Utah’s strict drug laws. But Sim Gill, Salt Lake County’s district attorney, would decline to pursue such a hypothetical case if he discovered that the search had been unlawful — conducted without a warrant or in the absence of a reasonable suspicion that a traffic law had been breached. Prosecutors should apply similar discretion, Gill argues, and refuse to bring charges under a wave of new abortion restrictions.
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Route Fifty
It’s no secret that infrastructure in the U.S. is crumbling. That is why public finance officials applaud U.S. Reps. Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland and Republican Steve Stivers of Ohio for their leadership in introducing the Investing in Our Communities Act in Congress to begin tackling this problem in earnest. Significant funding will be required to fully and responsibly address this nationwide problem, which is why the federal government must pass this bipartisan bill and reinstate the tax-exempt status for advance refunding bonds.
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Government Technology
As firefighters, police officers and medics rush to scenes or respond to roadside accidents, it's unfortunate — but hardly uncommon — for accidents involving emergency vehicles to happen. In response, one metro Detroit fire department has adopted a new alert system in partnership with the GPS navigation app Waze that is designed to prevent emergency vehicle accidents.
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KYW-AM
Philadelphia voters approved four ballot questions in the recent primary: One making city charter language gender neutral, one creating a permanent Office of Immigrant Affairs, one calling on the state to raise the minimum wage and one to create public safety officers to do some police work. But the last one, which approved the creation of a new category of public safety employees that would be somewhere between a crossing guard and a police officer, faces a challenge despite voter approval as the Fraternal Order of Police is still planning to fight the new force.
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Government Executive
An unprecedented number of women have come forward to share stories of workplace sexual harassment since the #MeToo movement gained momentum in late 2017. Yet their allegations are not always well received. Questions like “What took her so long?” and “Why didn’t she report it when it happened?” have become a refrain. They imply that women who initially chose not to report sexual harassment handled it incorrectly — even incompetently.
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Claims Journal
The U.S. Postal Service recently started a two-week test transporting mail across three Southwestern states using self-driving trucks, a step forward in the effort to commercialize autonomous vehicle technology for hauling freight. San Diego-based startup TuSimple said its self-driving trucks will begin hauling mail between USPS facilities in Phoenix and Dallas to see how the nascent technology might improve delivery times and costs. A safety driver will sit behind the wheel to intervene if necessary and an engineer will ride in the passenger seat.
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Insurance Journal
Ride-hailing apps like those of Uber Technologies and Lyft Inc. are expected to alter the state of car ownership towards subscription-based services and shared ownership, auto industry experts said at a recent conference. At the annual Collision Conference in Toronto, speakers said ride-hailing apps are also set to play a role in testing automation for safety.
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Claims Journal
It may sound simple: You either consent to sexual activity or you don’t. But just what constitutes an expression of consent is a hotly debated topic in the justice system and in society at large. And while there’s been a gradual cultural trend, especially on university campuses, toward a standard of “affirmative consent” — otherwise known as “yes means yes” rather than “no means no” — the laws on sexual assault have not similarly evolved.
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