By Edward M. Eveld The Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas needs more corrections officers — and at a higher pay scale to keep them from bolting for jobs elsewhere. The staffing problem at state prisons is disquieting and potentially dangerous, lawmakers say, and it’s likely to be one of the squeakier wheels […]
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NY 911 services receive $10M in state grants
By Mark Boshnack The Daily Star ONEONTA, N.Y. — Area county 911 dispatch operations will receive a portion of the the $10 million in Public Safety Answering Points operations grants announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday. The funding, administered by the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, will support 57 counties and […]
Despite Feds publishing, several states allow investigation files to be sealed
By Marc Perrusquia The Commercial Appeal MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The nationwide focus on police shootings is gradually forcing state and local authorities to confront another public concern that lingered for years in the margins of news pages: police secrecy. While the files of the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies have been subject to […]