1 Maine jail has not begun vaccinating inmates as advocates hit uneven rollout Contributed • May 6, 2021
By Jessica Piper and Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff
AUGUSTA Some Maine jails have administered the COVID-19 vaccine to more than 70 percent of incarcerated populations while at least one has yet to vaccinate inmates at all as correctional facilities continue to see some of the state’s largest outbreaks.
Nursing homes and most other congregate facilities were included as part of the first phase of Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout last December.
By Jessica Piper and Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff
AUGUSTA Some Maine jails have administered the COVID-19 vaccine to more than 70 percent of incarcerated populations while at least one has yet to vaccinate inmates at all as correctional facilities continue to see some of the state’s largest outbreaks.
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Europe: ARTICLE 19 and the Digital Markets Act debate
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Today, ARTICLE 19 alongside Amnesty International, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Civil Liberties Union for Europe and the Open Society European Policy Institute submitted their response to the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications’ (BEREC) public consultation on its Draft Report on ex ante regulation of digital gatekeepers. We support BEREC’s calls to incorporate into the Digital Markets Act (DMA) reinforced measures to strengthen competition among gatekeeping platforms and to better protect end-users’ rights. We also support the call to guarantee the openness principle throughout the digital environment, and to have open-internet type requirements for the application layer, in addition to the network layer, in order to avoid bottleneck power over the access to content and applications. We make additional proposals on ho
May 1 MAHANOY CITY Insurance is covering Mahanoy Area School District's legal bills as its appeal of a student free speech case has risen to the U.S. Supreme Court. "The school district has paid the deductible of $15,000 related to our E&O insurance," Business Administrator John J. Hurst told the school board Thursday night. The nine justices on the Supreme Court.
New online EU terror law is censorship, warn rights groups
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The European Parliament has approved a EU regulation against terrorist content online. It allows one EU state to ask another to remove content hosted in another. But European Digital Rights, Access Now, the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, and other NGOs say the new rules amount to censorship. Somebody like Viktor Orban could ask for the removal of content uploaded in another country because it criticises his government, said Liberties.
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