State finds Marion County Jail non-compliant on three counts (Source: KLTV) By KLTV Digital Media Staff | February 23, 2021 at 2:12 PM CST - Updated February 23 at 9:56 PM
JEFFERSON, Texas (KLTV) - The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) cited three areas where the Marion County Jail was non-compliant in a Dec. 18, 2020 inspection report.
The first citation regarding training said all the jail’s staff involved in classification should have a minimum of four hours training on principles, procedures and instruments for assessments, housing assignments, reassessments and inmate needs. Staff who had not completed the training are performing classification duties according to the report.
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NICOSIA (Reuters) - A grouping of world auditors say they are concerned that the Cypriot government is limiting examiners’ access to records from an axed citizenship-for-investment scheme that critics said was open to abuse.
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Cyprus scrapped the programme in November last year after the Al Jazeera news network filmed a senior state official allegedly offering to facilitate a passport for a bogus investor with a criminal record. The official involved denied wrongdoing, but the government said the scheme was flawed and open to abuse.
Before that, authorities had defended the initiative, which was popular with Russians, Ukrainians, Chinese and Cambodians. Critics, which included opposition politicians and transparency campaigners, panned the scheme as opaque and fraught with criminal risk of money-laundering.
During a company briefing today (Feb. 24), Facebook’s organic content policy manager Varun Reddy acknowledged that because a lot of human reviewers across the globe had to be sent home during the early months of the pandemic, the feedback loop for monitoring content was fractured. The AI learns from human moderators, he explained, adding that the reduction in human vetting volumes has changed “how effective the AI is over time,” he said.
On the surface, things look hunky-dory. In the last quarter of 2020, Facebook posted a massive drop in hate speech globally. As reviewer capacity ticked up, Facebook-owned Instagram removed 3.4 million pieces of suicide and self-injury content, up from 1.3 million in the third quarter. (The company doesn’t provide country-wise data.) While some of this crackdown can be attributed to better reviewing by people and technology, there is more context to the changing values.