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The latest radio licensee to agree to a Consent Decree with the FCC is FORT BERTHOLD COMMUNICATIONS ENTERPRISES, which is settling online public file violations at noncommercial Variety KMHA/FOUR BEARS, ND.As in previous Consent Decrees, the licensee is agreeing to create and implement a compliance plan, but is not being fined.
Garland, and especially vanita gupta, speaking not just to activists and to community members, but also to police officers. if you look at what was announced last week, it was a slate of reforms that brings accountability to bear all across the components of the justice department that are used as levers top both oversee law enforcement, but also to have a better understanding of how the system works together. so you have a way in which they spoke with police departments, they found that consent decrees, while a powerful tool, are actually in many ways unfair to law enforcement, because they n...
Violations in places like georgia, is the department likely to be effective, given the federal nature of our system, the decentralized nature of our system? how valuable is it to actually have a department of justice doing the right thing with the american structure, as it is? >> this remains an open question, right? and certainly, i cannot underestimate the value of having someone like nina cupta at the head of these kind of investigations. she has been a long ally of many activists, and not just activists, but she's been engaged deeply with community if he said for a long time. those folks w...
Are with me now. roll nld, we've been talking about police departments long before the country was talking about it. merrick garland is undo or doing something the trump didn't do, the obama administration had been doing, whether federal supervision or consent decrees or pattern or practice investigations. how meaningful is this in terms of changing policing? we still don't have a federal bill. george floyd policing bill. but does this thing move us forward? >> they actually do, because by having the department of justice come in and putting eyes on these departments and also have monitors the...