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September 1st, 2022category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer The inmate population at Indian country jails increased 8% at midyear 2021 to a total of 2,180 inmates held in 80 jails, from the 2,020 inmates held in 82 facilities at midyear 2020, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)...
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February 1st, 2022category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer There's no doubt that combating child sex abuse material (CSAM) is a serious challenge that law enforcement officers, parents, caregivers, and various others involved in or concerned about child safety and protection face. Sample this: Of the 21.7+...
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December 23rd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer When 2021 began, it was not a Covid-19-free world as many had hoped. For all of 2020 and several months into 2021, casinos across the country were either entirely closed or operating under capacity restrictions and other measures...
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November 29th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Around 2.31 million passengers passed through airport screenings last Wednesday, Nov. 24, the day before Thanksgiving, according to data from the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA). That's over double when compared with the 1.07 million people who went through...
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October 25th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Nurses in the United States experience suicidal thoughts "in greater numbers" than other general workers, a study published in the American Journal of Nursing said. Among nurses, those who do have suicidal thoughts are also less likely to...
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October 8th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer September became the deadliest month for employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice since the Covid-19 pandemic began, even as coronavirus fatalities dropped across the state, a Dallas Morning News report said. Covid-19 led to the death...
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September 22nd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer As of June 30, 2021, 155 federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement officers (LEOs) died in the line of duty, according to preliminary data compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF). That's roughly a...
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September 20th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer In late 2020, much before anyone ever imagined that a deadlier variant of the Covid-19 virus would sweep across the world and wreak renewed havoc on healthcare and governance systems, organizations like the United Nations Office on Drugs...
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September 16th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind On Sept. 17, 2020, in recognition of National Physician Suicide Awareness Day, the Physicians Foundation published the alarming results of a new survey that found that nearly one in four physicians (22%) know another physician who has committed suicide,...
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September 2nd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer In March, Biometrica did a round-up of some of the key crime, prison, and law enforcement bills with most support in the House in 2021 up to that point. Today, we pick a few crime-related bills in the...
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August 30th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind In July, the U.S. government reported that drug overdose deaths last year, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, soared nearly 30% to a record number of around 93,000. That's a massive spike from 2019's 72,000 drug overdose deaths,...
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August 13th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition, said it received 9,081 reports of hate incidents committed against the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community since the Covid-19 pandemic began, i.e., between March 2020 and June 30, 2021. The...
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August 10th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Monthly operator revenue at sportsbooks across the country came in at $318 million in June, the highest nationwide win rate for this year, and only the fourth time that the number has clocked in higher than $300 million...
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August 6th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer The number of nursing home patients and staff infected with the Covid-19 virus rose sharply last week, at a time when the nation is reeling under the menace of the highly contagious delta variant and as total cases...
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July 27th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer On Monday, July 26, the United States government said it will not be lifting existing travel restrictions due to concerns over the highly transmissible delta variant of Covid-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country,...
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July 26th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Last week, a coalition of researchers from organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the UN’s World Health Organization, and the World Bank published a report in the medical journal Lancet, in which it was...
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June 30th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer This time last week, we established that yes, terror groups were very much active during 2020, even when much of the world was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as the Europol Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2021...
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April 16th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy Wyly Wade Section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights, to post notice of any breach of unsecured protected health information that affects 500 or more individuals. According to...
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Nevada Casinos That Want To Operate At Higher Capacity Must Encourage Staff To Take Covid-19 Vaccine
April 5th, 2021category: News ReportsBy Anand Vasu The Nevada Gaming Commission has said that casinos seeking to operate at higher than 50% capacity — which will be allowed from May 1 — need to take steps that encourage their workers to take the Covid-19 vaccine. This...
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March 16th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Michael P. Johnson March 11, 2021, marked the 1st anniversary of Covid-19 being labeled a "pandemic." A year ago, the casino industry was turned on its ear, having to shut down. Looking back on it now, as a casino professional with...
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February 15th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Olakitan Oluwalade, his cousin Odunayo Baba Oluwalade and Kelly Lamont Williams were arrested after the HSI Intellectual Property Rights Center and the HSI Cyber Crimes Center became aware of a fraudulent replication of the website of Company 1, a biotechnology company based in...
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February 11th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer David T Hines of Miami fraudulently obtained $3.9m in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and used part of these funds to buy himself a Lamborghini Huracan sports car worth $318,000. At the time of his arrest, the car...
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February 9th, 2021category: Feature Stories50 Small Businesses Receive $20,000 Grants Each In Partnership With IEEP Some of the business owners that were among the 50 chosen for the San Manuel-IEEP grants watch on Zoom while the grants are announced. All images in this post are courtesy of the...
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February 4th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer If you think scammers also took a break during the Covid-19 pandemic, think again! On Feb. 4, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) said it received more than 2.1 million fraud reports from consumers in 2020. Imposter scams were...
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February 2nd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind Map courtesy of the Casino City Press Gaming Directory, which can be accessed here. You can change the date on the map above to see openings at any given time. The $261 billion U.S. casino and gaming industry may...
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December 2nd, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Interpol issued a global alert to law enforcement across its 194 member countries warning them to gear up for organized crime networks targeting covid-19 vaccines. The group’s Orange Notice warned the international community to prepare for possible infiltration...
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September 15th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer A Texan woman has been taken into custody on allegations of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of more than $1.9 million in forgivable loans, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. The Small Business Administration...
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September 10th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Former New York Jets wide receiver Joshua J Bellamy was arrested in Florida and charged for his role in a scheme that involved defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The National Football League (NFL) player and his associates...
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September 3rd, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer An attorney from New Jersey was arrested on charges of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) by obtaining about $9 million in loans, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Jae H. Choi, a licensed...
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August 21st, 2020category: News Reports
A Minnesota man was charged for defrauding the PPP of $841,000 | © Ossi Lehtonen - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer A man from Minnesota was charged for allegedly defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of about $841,000, the US Department of...
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August 3rd, 2020category: News Reports
Wynn Resorts Ltd closed its office in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city by population | © creativecommonsstockphotos - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer Wynn Resorts Ltd closed its office in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city by population, due to delays in the...
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July 31st, 2020category: News Reports
The covid-19 pandemic has amplified the shift to younger visitors and non-gamblers in Atlantic City since gambling parlors re-opened in July | © Martin Allinger - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer Before the covid-19 pandemic, Atlantic City’s casinos were working toward expanding...