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Workplace Drug Testing And Marijuana Legalization In Washington State And Colorado
December 01, 2012 - Employers in Washington State and Colorado have raised questions about how the recent legalization of recreational marijuana in those states will impact their right to test workers for drugs. Some universities and other organizations have already issued statements saying that they have no intention of changing their drug testing policies. However, other organizations are consulting lawyers to determine how best to proceed. There is nothing in the new state laws preventing drug testing, and the Colorado law specifically states that it is not intended to "require an employer to permit or accommodate the use, consumption, possession, transfer, display, transportation, sale or growing of marijuana in the workplace or to affe...
Two Former Alabama Court Employees Accused of Stealing Records Database Code
December 01, 2012 - Michael David Carroll, aged 58, and Jill Hawthorne, aged 35, both from Montgomery and both former employees of the Alabama Administrative Office of...
Law Allows NC Nonviolent Offenders To Clear Records
December 01, 2012 - A law change that went into effect December 1st allows one-time, nonviolent offenders of all ages to expunge their criminal records in North Caroli...
Wayne County Circuit Court Records Now Online
December 01, 2012 - By Gus Burns Wayne County's 3rd Circuit Court has had a technological breakthrough. Court records, at least certain details about cases...
Access, Other Changes Coming Online for Pinellas Public Records
November 01, 2012 - Users are closer to having easier access to some online public records with the launch of the f...
N.H. E-court Project Slows Due To Funding Issues
November 01, 2012 - A sweeping plan to modernize New Hampshire's court system has been slow to get off the ground due to limited funding. In 2011, judicial off...
Internet Providers to Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content
November 01, 2012 - In the coming months five of the nation's largest Internet service providers will begin implementing a program they hope will cut down on illeg...
USA Overrun By Criminals - EEOC Asks Employers For Help
November 01, 2012 - Background checks are necessary to keep the workplace safe and to protect the good workers from the bad ones. But the checking is fraught with risk...
New York Court Burns Down
November 01, 2012 - As investigators worked their way through the wreckage in downtown Castile, New York, village and town continued to re-establish themselves. To...
New Orleans' Criminal Justice System Is 'Fragmented,' Outdated, Consultants Say
November 01, 2012 - An independent study, commissioned by the city of New Orleans to scrutinize its embattled criminal justice system, found "highly fragmented&qu...
Maor, NZ Court Computers Down
November 01, 2012 - The NZ Ministry of Justice says it will be at least a month until public computers at the Maori Land Court are switched back on. The ministry h...
Don't Cut Yourself - It's A crime
November 01, 2012 - A 42-year-old Waukesha man is charged after he repeatedly stabbed himself with a box cutter after waking up inside the emergency room at "Wauk...
Georgia Legislator Takes On Mugshots.com
November 01, 2012 - At first, it was crazy celebrities whose mugshots began showing up online. Now, everyday people pop up on some very popular mugshot sites. It can b...
Pennsylvania Death Records Get Easier To Obtain
November 01, 2012 - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that coroners cannot withhold information about the cause and manner of deaths until after the end of each yea...
Michigan Court Awards $22 Million Dollar Diploma Mill Lawsuit
November 01, 2012 - A federal Judge for the Eastern District Court of Michigan recently awarded plaintiffs in a civil class action lawsuit $22,783,500.00. The pl...
Logan County, Arkansas Court Online
November 01, 2012 - Logan County residents are now only a couple of mouse clicks away from being able to read public court records on their computer or Internet-connec...
Trusted Traveler Program Coming To Fort Lauderdale airport
November 01, 2012 - A holiday gift for some frequent fliers: the Transportation Security Administration in mid-December plans to start its trusted-traveler program at...
Nanny Searches, Already Intense, May Become More So
November 01, 2012 - The battery of questions that can rain on nannies from prospective employers or agencies often resembles a psychological appraisal, far more probin...
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