Is LA County putting itself at legal risk by sending light-duty probation officers home? – DailyNews

A new mandate forcing Los Angeles County probation officers physically unable to work in the juvenile halls to stay home could expose the county to significant liability as it potentially violates federal laws requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to injured and disabled workers, according to legal experts. In a February memo, Probation Department Chief Guillermo Viera Rosa announced plans to redeploy 250 field officers on 60-day rotations to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall and the Barry J. Nidorf Secure Youth Treatment Facility, where persistent under-staffing has led to such poor conditions that state regulators ordered the facilities to close if…

Gov. Lee Signs ELVIS Act Into Law

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Today, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee was joined by legislative leadership and music industry professionals as he signed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Actfirst-of-its-kind legislation updating Tennessee’s Protection of Personal Rights law to include protections or songwriters, performers, and music industry professionals’ voice from the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI). Click here to download photos from the signing. Tennessee’s music industry supports more than 61,617 jobs across the state, contributions $5.8 billion to our GDP, and fills over 4,500 music venues. “From Beale Street to Broadway, to Bristol and beyond, Tennessee is known for our…

Legal Update: Care – A protected characteristic?

Ellen Broome, managing director of CoramBAAF, explains how making care a protected characteristic would place a duty on organizations to take the needs of care-experienced people into account. In July, the children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, opened a consultation on whether care experience should be a “protected characteristic” under the Equality Act 2010. This follows news that 55 local authorities so far have voted to make care experience a protected characteristic. The momentum for change has emerged out of the growing recognition that care leavers face poorer outcomes in physical and mental health, education, employment and…

Georgia law to identify undocumented immigrants passes in the House, what it means for Athens | CityNews

Legislators in the Georgia state House of Representatives passed House Bill 1105, also known as The Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act, on Thursday, Feb. 29. This would require every eligible police and sheriff’s department to help identify undocumented immigrants, arrest them and detain them for deportation. The bill would also require these departments to publish a report every 90 days detailing data on “immigration status, offenses and home countries of mates who are not United States citizens, who are confined under the authority of the department and regarding whom the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of…