New York State's Governor Andrew M. Cuomo issued an Executive Order permitting any New York State registered voter concerned about risk or exposure to COVID-19 to request an absentee ballot.
On September 1, 2020, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the launch of New York's Absentee Ballot Portal where voters can directly request an absentee ballot for the November 3, 2020 election. The Governor's Executive Order to permits any voter concerned about risk or exposure to COVID during the ongoing pandemic to request an absentee ballot.
The Governor also issued an Executive Order to bolster and support New Yorkers' right to vote. The order requires county boards of elections to take concrete steps to inform voters of upcoming deadlines, be prepared for upcoming elections and help ensure absentee ballots can be used in all elections.
All Registered New York State Voters Can Request an Absentee Ballot Here
The Americans for Effective Law Enforcement [AELE] has announce the following:
Public Safety Discipline and Internal Investigations Seminar---Attend Virtually On Demand.
A 3½ day updated seminar on "Public Safety Discipline and Internal Investigations" begins September 28, 2020 and ends at Noon on October 1, 2020. This is an ON-DEMAND presentation, enabling those registered to attend, review, and complete "the entire seminar at your convenience, in comfortable surroundings, and gives you the opportunity to replay presentations to make sure you hear the important points of the many presenters." For registration and additional information click on http://www.aele.org/public-safety-discipline-and-internal-investigations.html
September Law Enforcement Liability Reporter:
This issue has cases on assault and battery: physical, electronic control weapons: dart mode, failure to disclose evidence, false arrest/imprisonment: no warrant, false arrest/imprisonment: warrant, firearms related: accidental use, firearms related: intentional use, immigrants and immigration issues, and search and seizure: body cavity. http://www.aele.org/law/2020all09/LR2020SEP.pdf
September Fire, Police & Corrections Personnel Reporter:
This issue has cases on age discrimination, collective bargaining, disciplinary interviews & compelled reports, disciplinary punishment, handicap/abilities discrimination: reasonable accommodation, pensions, religious discrimination, retaliatory personnel action, and wrongful discharge. http://www.aele.org/law/2020all09/FP2020SEP.pdf
September Jail and Prisoner Law Bulletin:
This issue has cases on First Amendment, gang activity, inmate funds, Prison Litigation Reform Act: exhaustion of remedies, Prison Litigation Reform Act: “three strikes” rule, prisoner assault: by inmates, prisoner discipline, prisoner suicide, and religion. http://www.aele.org/law/2020all09/JB2020SEP.pdf
Learning of a fire truck in a parade displayed a Confederate flag, New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said "I'm appalled by reports that a Confederate flag was flown on a Brookhaven Fire Department truck at a Patchogue parade. We have zero tolerance for symbols of racism or division, and I have directed the New York State Division of Human Rights to investigate the incident immediately."
On August 31, 2020, a newspaper, Newsday, published an article concerning the incident. The article is posted on the Internet at:
The New Civil Liberties Alliance [NCLA], a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, announced that the Arizona Supreme Court "adopted verbatim" an NCLA-drafted amendment to the court's Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions Rules making it easier for litigants to obtain Superior Court stays of administrative decisions.The new rule goes into effect starting January 1, 2021 and affects all appeals from the final decisions of all Arizona state agencies that are required to go to the Arizona Superior Court.The text of the amendment is posted on the Internet at https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Order-R200008.pdf.For information about NCLA click on https://nclalegal.org/about/.
5 U.S.C. §7321, et seq, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities and typically referred to as the Hatch Act, was enacted by Congress to express its policy that "employees should be encouraged to exercise fully, freely, and without fear of penalty or reprisal, and to the extent not expressly prohibited by law, their right to participate or to refrain from participating in the political processes of the Nation." Recently significant attention has been focused on provisions set out in law prohibiting partisan political activities by most officers and employees serving in executive branch of the federal government. On April 20, 2020, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress, posted a publication, The Hatch Act: A Primer, on the Internet at A Guide to the Hatch Act for Federal Employees - OSC.gov .
The Hatch Act, however, also applies to state officers and employees and officers and employees of political subdivisions of a state whose principal employment is in connection with an activity which is financed, in whole or in part, by the federal government. This prohibition, however, does not apply to individuals employed by educational or research institutions that a state supports and certain religious, philanthropic and cultural organizations. For example, the members of a public school board of education and school officers and teachers employed by a public school are not within the ambit of the Act.
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