Pres. Joe Biden revives Obama-era Health Care Protections to LGBTQ+ Americans
Honoring campaign promises, President Joe Biden earlier today signed an executive order restoring health care protections to LGBTQ+ Americans. The action prompted immediate gratitude from the millions of Americans that were singled out and persecuted during his predecessor’s time in office.
“Today’s announcement by HHS to reverse discriminatory policy that sought to allow health care providers to refuse to treat LGBTQ people is the latest indicator that this administration is committed to dignity and respect for all Americans,” said Kasey Suffredini, CEO and National Campaign Director of Freedom for All Americans. “The previous policy put LGBTQ people, and particularly transgender Americans, at risk of being unable to access lifesaving health care.”
Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld Trump’s ban what’s next?
Facebook moderation expert Kate Klonick weighs in
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Today we’re focused on one of the most complicated problems of all: content moderation. If you’ve kept up with
Decoder, you know that content moderation seems to come up almost every week the question of how platform companies decide what to leave up and what to take down is messy, controversial, and extremely political.
And if something on the internet is messy, controversial, and political, you know that Facebook will be at the bleeding edge of it. Last year, the company announced that it would send difficult moderation problems to a new entity it calls the Oversight Board a committee made up of lawyers, politicians, and speech experts that would rule on whether specific content takedowns on Facebook were appropriate.
A teacher speaks with students in the classroom and online as they return to in-person learning at St. Anthony Catholic High School during the COVID-19 pandemic on March 24, 2021, in Long Beach, California. | PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
An Indiana court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against a Roman Catholic Archdiocese by a former private school teacher who was fired for being in a same-sex marriage.
Marion Superior Court Judge Lance D. Hamner issued an order Friday in favor of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit by former teacher Joshua Payne-Elliot.
According to the order, the court concluded that there was a “lack of subject matter jurisdiction” and “failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.”
Millions Of Public Transit Touch N Go Smartphone Users Can Be Tracked By Law Enforcement
Published: May 11, 2021
As more and more people use their smartphones to pay for everyday items, public transit agencies are encouraging millions of Americans to use their phones as their primary means of paying their fares.
In New York City and elsewhere, police can use touch n go or touchless fares to track millions of public transit users movements.
New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority s OMNY Executive Director Al Putre said that as of December 2020 there have been over 34 million taps.
Imagine you are the Feds or the NYPD and you just found out that your agency now has access to detailed records of over 34 million transit user s personal information. What do you think will happen?
Women in law enforcement reflect on Busting the Brass Ceiling
FOX 11 spoke with women in law enforcement as they reflect on Breaking the Brass Ceiling.
LOS ANGELES - Assistant Chief Alma Burke is the first Latina Assistant Police Chief at USC.
She first spent 24 in the LAPD. Her success, and that of high-ranking women in law enforcement, may in part be credited to landmark legal action by a female officer who joined the LAPD in 1948. As women couldn t promote past Sergeant, Fanchon Blake took a discrimination case all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
The story of Blake is the subject of a new book titled: Busting The Brass Ceiling: How a heroic female cop changed the face of policing. Linden Gross co-authored the book with Blake who passed away and is part of a panel on women in policing being held Saturday, May 15. It would have been Blake s 100th birthday.