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PHILADELPHIA — Amid growing calls for police reform and national debate over the deadly use of force, police departments are struggling to retain and attract officers, law enforcement officials say. Across the nation, police officials and union leaders described the state of recruiting as in “crisis” mode. “It’s the perfect storm. We are anticipating that the department is going to be understaffed by several hundred members, because hundreds of guys are either retiring ...

Thompson Coburn LLP Jim serves as a trusted advisor to clients facing complex cybersecurity and privacy issues — particularly those in the countrys most highly regulated industries. He is the chair of Thompson Coburns Cybersecurity group, was named a Fellow of Information Privacy, and holds CIPP/US and CIPT certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Jim advises all types of companies on the myriad legal concerns surrounding confidential information and how ...

Reply "The problem of substance abuse is not primarily a law enforcement problem – it is a human problem, with many dimensions." (Shutterstock) DELAWARE COUNTY, PA — Delaware County officials last week announced the reformation of the countys Heroin Task Force to be a more inclusive substance abuse group. District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer and Sandra Garrison, the Director of the Countys Department of Human Services, announced last week said the countys Heroin Task Force has been reshaped ...

Delaware News Journal The 2020 election cycle was a historic one for Delaware when the state’s favorite son, Joe Biden, won the presidency.  But the state also made history in other ways, including newly elected progressive lawmakers who broke national and local barriers. Three of them became Delaware’s first openly gay, first openly lesbian and first practicing Muslim state lawmakers in history, increasing the diversity in the 62-member Legislature after shocking the state by defeating t...

Delaware News Journal The 2020 election cycle was a historic one for Delaware when the state’s favorite son, Joe Biden, won the presidency.  But the state also made history in other ways, including newly elected progressive lawmakers who broke national and local barriers. Three of them became Delaware’s first openly gay, first openly lesbian and first practicing Muslim state lawmakers in history, increasing the diversity in the 62-member Legislature after shocking the state by defeating t...

It was the year history will remember, but we all wish we could forget. The coronavirus dominated the year’s headlines and brought life as we knew it to a halt. Thousands of Delawareans were infected with the virus, businesses were decimated, schools scrambled to find ways to teach kids online, face masks became a legal requirement, and everyone learned what it meant to practice “social distancing.” The pandemic wasn’t the only national story that also had an impact in Newar...

BERLIN – As recent rains have highlighted drainage issues in Ocean Pines, officials are assuring residents improvements are being planned. General Manger John Viola told concerned residents during December’s Ocean Pines Association (OPA) board meeting that improvements, notably work at Bainbridge Pond, would be done in 2021. “For the Bainbridge area, that whole area all around the pond, it’s definitely going to help it,” Viola said. “They’re doing work with the pond that will have...