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In a reversal, the LA County Sheriff’s Office will release the names of deputies involved in shootings within 30 days
In a reversal, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday it will release within 30 days of an incident the names of deputies who shoot a suspect.
In the past, the department concealed deputies’ names sometimes for months while the District Attorney’s office completed its investigation.
“We’re not going to interfere with investigations, but our standard is going to be 30 days and those [names] are going to be posted online,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva said.
Police departments and communities have been debating transparency and accountability in officer-involved shootings after a year of national protests over incidents of police killings of Black Americans.
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A case heading to the U.S. Supreme Court next year could have profound impacts on abortion access in Ohio, with advocates on both sides of the debate hoping or fearing that justices will roll back reproductive rights established decades ago.
The Supreme Court announced this week that it will review a Mississippi law, tossed out by lower courts, that bans most abortions after 15 weeks before a fetus is considered viable under current legal standards. Justices aren t expected to make a decision until next year, when Ohio will be in the throes of a contentious midterm election. The fact that this is going before the Supreme Court is putting 50 years of precedent around reproductive rights at risk and in question, said Laurel Powell, spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio. Anti-abortion politicians have really fought for this moment.
CBS News They going to show up and kick me out : Millions face eviction when moratorium ends
Dallas Families across the U.S. don t know if they re going to have a place to stay as states challenge the federal moratorium on evictions imposed during the pandemic. The trickle of evictions could soon become a flood as renters owe $53 billion to landlords.
Anthony Upshaw and his 17-year-old son are among those being evicted after Upshaw lost this job early in the pandemic and has been struggling since. Constables placed his belongings in the front yard of the Dallas property. They going to show up and kick me out. My kid is up here doing his school work. There s like three weeks of school left before the kids graduate, Upshaw said.