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  • Photo shows the US Capitol set against the night sky. | Photo by Darren Halstead on Unsplash

    Spotlight: Anti-Crime Bills In The Works

    November 11th, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer This midterm election season, along with the state of the economy, the country's crime rate has been under the scanner. Forty percent of U.S. registered voters said crime is an extremely important issue when it comes to their...

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    Gun Violence Prevention Bills: A Legislation Round-Up

    June 23rd, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer By now, most of us have probably read that on Tuesday, June 21, Senate bargainers reached agreement on an incremental yet necessary bipartisan gun violence bill. The bill is in response to recent deadly mass shootings in Texas...

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    Child Safety Legislation In The Works: A Round-Up

    January 4th, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer At Biometrica, child safety and protection has always been at the heart of what we do. We ended 2021 with a look-back special at various issues surrounding this all-important public safety subject that took centerstage through last year....

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    Protecting Our Roads From Terror Actors: The Darren Drake Act

    November 11th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Halloween 2017 turned out to be one the city of New York will never forget. At some point before 3 p.m. on the day, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov took the white Home Depot pickup truck he had rented in...

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    Protecting The Elderly From Abuse, Neglect And Fraud: A Legislation Round-Up

    September 30th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer In July, we wrote about how millions of elderly Americans become the victims of some kind of financial fraud or internet scam each year. And those numbers are not inclusive of the kind of abuse and neglect senior citizens...

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    The Dr. Lorna Breen Bill Addresses An Urgent Public Health Crisis: Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing

    September 16th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By 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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    From Combating Hate To Gun Tracing: A Status Check Of Crime-Related Bills In 2021

    September 2nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By 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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  • ‘Clogged Arteries At The Heart Of Our Economy [Are] Going To Be Opened Up’ — Senate Approves $1T Infrastructure Bill

    August 11th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On Tuesday, Aug. 10, the Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a long-awaited, $1 trillion bipartisan bill, sending it onto the House for approval. All 50 Democrats voted in favor, joined by 19 Republicans. This is...

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    Lots Of Proposals But Little Action So Far To Address the Opioid Epidemic

    July 29th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer There have been nearly 100 bills introduced so far this year that address the opioid epidemic. It seems everyone can agree this is an issue that needs to be addressed, but very few have managed to get any support...

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    Kayleigh’s Law: Targeting Lifetime Protection For Some Sexual Assault Victims

    July 22nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer On Wednesday, July 21, a legislator in Wisconsin proposed what's known as "Kayleigh's Law" in the state legislature to help protect certain sexual assault victims from their attackers. The proposed bill would allow those who have been victims...

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  • Momentum Building On Proposed $4.1 Trillion Infrastructure Spending Plans Ahead Of Congress’ August Recess

    July 16th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Widely considered to be one of the least polarizing issues in politics, infrastructure has become the key priority of the Biden-Harris Administration’s agenda. Currently, there are three bills being discussed in the U.S. Congress — two in the...

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    How The Violence Against Women Act Might Better Protect Indigenous Women

    July 13th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh Among the many verdicts handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month was the unanimous affirmation of the right of tribal law enforcement officers to detain non-Native people who they reasonably suspect to have been involved in a...

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  • Residents Of Colorado Now Have A Say In How Companies Collect And Use Their Personal Data

    July 9th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In a big win for those arguing for greater autonomy for consumers on how companies collect and use their personal data, this week, Colorado became the third state, after Virginia and California, to implement a sweeping piece of...

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    Crime Bills On The Move This Summer

    July 8th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer Plenty of bills are proposed that never become law. This summer, however, several crime and law enforcement bills have made progress in the process of becoming law. Here are the summer’s top movers so far in terms of bills...

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    Proposed Changes To Federal Gaming Law In 2021

    July 1st, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer Federal gaming law may be changing soon if any of the several proposed pieces of legislation currently in front of Congress pass this year. In this article, we review a few notable pieces of proposed legislation that touch on...

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  • Texas Supreme Court Says Facebook Can Be Held Liable For Child Sex Trafficking On Its Platform

    June 28th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In a move likely may have a far-reaching ripple effect, on Friday, June 25, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Facebook can be held responsible for its users engaging in illegal sex trafficking activities on the site, regardless...

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  • Landmark Anti-Sex Trafficking Law From 2018 Barely Used: Accountability Watchdog

    June 25th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Aara Ramesh A landmark law intended to radically alter the landscape of sex trafficking online has had a limited impact in the three years since it was enacted, according to a recent report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)....

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    Update: A Round-Up Of Changes To Several Pieces Of Pending Legislation

    June 17th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer Earlier this year we discussed pending legislation in an article titled, “Pending Hate Crime Legislation in Front of Congress,” published April 22, and a February 4 article titled, “More Legal Firepower Proposed in Battle Against Child Abuse.” More has...

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  • Pistols At Dawn – Handful Of States Move On ‘Constitutional Carry’

    May 25th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Aara Ramesh The Gordian knot that is the gun control debate in America has flared up in recent weeks, as the number of mass shootings has surged and as the National Rifle Association (NRA) is battling bankruptcy and corruption charges in...

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  • Arizona Legalizes Use Of Fentanyl Test Strips In Bid to Curb Accidental Overdoses

    May 21st, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Aara Ramesh On May 18, Governor Doug Ducey signed into law a bill that excludes narcotic drug testing products from an existing law that classifies them as illegal drug paraphernalia. The particular target of this action are fentanyl test strips (FTS),...

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  • Florida Legalizes Sports Betting, Ratifies Historic Gaming Compact With Seminole Tribe

    May 20th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On Wednesday, 24 hours after the Florida Senate overwhelmingly voted to approve a potentially precedent-setting gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe, the ayes in the Florida House also held sway in a bipartisan vote, sending the measure negotiated...

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  • House Sends Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Bill To President Biden’s Desk

    May 19th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The US House of Representatives on Tuesday, May 18, passed the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act in a 364–62 vote, sending it to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The initiative to pass the bill was led...

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    IA, LA, CO, AR Strengthen Legislation Around Child Sexual Abuse, While Efforts In PA Stall

    May 14th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Aara Ramesh It might be tempting to think that child sexual abuse is a phenomenon of the digital age, a purely modern trend. While it is true that the epidemic has worsened with the advent of the internet, it has been...

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    Pending Hate Crime Legislation In Front Of Congress

    April 22nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer As of April, 2021, Congress is considering several different pieces of legislation which address hate crimes. Many of them focus on hate crimes directly. Others have a different focus, but also take on the subject of hate crimes. Here...

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    Proposed Prison Reform Legislation In 2021

    March 18th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer Congress has had several new bills proposed so far this year to address the issue of prison reform. Together, they cover the topics of youthful offenders, nonviolent offenders, elderly offenders, Covid-19, solitary confinement, monitoring of electronic communications, re-entry into...

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    Top Crime, Prison, and Law Enforcement Bills with Most Support in the House in 2021

    March 11th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer As of March this year, there are already several bills proposed in the area of crime, prison, and law enforcement. These bills cover a wide range of topics including hate crimes, the death penalty, solitary confinement, mental health, parenthood...

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  • The Legal Battle Against Coercive Control is Just Beginning

    March 3rd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer There is a form of abuse that is still not illegal in most of the United States, not because anyone decided it should be legal, but because of a lack of awareness. It often accompanies other forms of abuse,...

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  • Proposed Background Check Laws In Front Of The 117th Congress

    February 18th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer Contact Us As of February 2021, the 117th Congress already has seven bills introduced which, if passed, would change background checking requirements in our country. Five of these bills focus specifically on the subject of background checks involving gun...

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  • More Legal Firepower Proposed In Battle Against Child Abuse

    February 4th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer The House of Representatives currently has four pieces of legislation before it aimed at better handling child abuse so far in 2021. Of these, one is a reauthorization of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, two are proposed...

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