The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association expressed “growing concern” about President Biden’s nominee for director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Kiran Ahuja, over her “embracement” of critical race theory.
Local communities may be able to get federal assistance constructing, restoring or maintaining memorials to veterans, law enforcement and firefighters.
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-Utica) has introduced a bill to authorize two-million dollars a year over five years to help governments and non-profits that secure matching funds for memorial projects.
The “Remembering Our Local Heroes Act” would provide grants of no more than $100,000 for an initial period of five years.
The bill from the Utica Republican would provide grants to recipients who also provide non-Federal matching funds of at least 50 percent to ensure any memorial receiving funds has strong community support.
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The justices agreed with a broad range of critics that prosecutors had been misusing the 35-year-old law.
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The Supreme Court has sharply curtailed the scope of the nation’s main cybercrime law, limiting a tool that civil liberties advocates say federal prosecutors have abused by seeking prison time for minor computer misdeeds.
decision handed down Thursday means federal prosecutors can no longer use the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to charge people who misused databases they
are otherwise entitled to access. The ruling comes six months after justices expressed concern that the government’s sweeping interpretation of the law could place people in jeopardy for activities as mundane as checking social media on their work computers, with Justice Neil Gorsuch saying prosecutors’ view risked “making a federal criminal of us all.”