The changes follow AP reporting last year that found a series of sexual assault and harassment allegations against senior officials who were allowed to quietly avoid discipline and retire or transfer even after the claims were substantiated.
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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.”
In an attempt to save the whistleblower program at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Senate on Friday approved a bill to create a separate fund to pay CFTC whistleblowers rather than having the office draw on penalties levied against wrongdoers.
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