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Lake School Board shouldn't have waited to be sued over gay-straight club
The School Board could have walked away with dignity and a reputation for fair dealing after the threat of a lawsuit to force the district to let a student form a gay-straight club at a Leesburg school. But, no. Leave it to the board to postpone the...Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Politics, Elections
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Here is the latest Michigan news from The Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Hundreds of people have held May Day rallies in Detroit and Grand Rapids. They are calling for immigration law changes and other labor condition improvements on the international workers holiday. About 50 labor supporters also rallied...Tags: International Workers' Day
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Privacy groups file lawsuit over license plate scanners
Privacy rights groups on Monday filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County's two major police departments after the agencies refused to turn over information collected by electronic license plate scanners, the suit claimed. The Los Angeles Police...Tags: Justice and Rights, Science and Technology, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Theft
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Lake School Board resumes struggle over gay-straight club
Lake County School Board members met for about three hours Monday but made little progress in finalizing new rules limiting which student clubs would be allowed on campus next year — including a new gay-straight club. The discussion came just days...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Leesburg
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Privacy advocates sue LAPD, Sheriff's Department
Privacy rights groups on Monday filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County's two major law enforcement agencies after they refused to turn over information collected by electronic license plate scanners, the suit claimed. The Los Angeles Police...Tags: Justice and Rights, Science and Technology, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Theft
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New Voices: People of all ages must learn to respect LGBT students
In high school, like many aspiring teenage writers, I had a blog. Most of my posts focused on politics, religion and issues faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Occasionally, people would comment on what I published. One of these...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Suicide, Gays and Lesbians, Students
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Bayli Silberstein prepares to form Gay-Straight Alliance Club
Bayli Silberstein will wrap up her final year at Leesburg's Carver Middle School in a month, but she's excited about finally moving ahead with a club to combat bullying, discrimination and harassment based on students' sexual orientation. The bisexual...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Trials
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ACLU: Allentown School District walking a fine line in advising students
The day before an emotionally charged Allentown School Board meeting in March, Allen High School's student representatives were pulled into a meeting with an administrator many of them had never met. The message that Chief Academic Officer Tina...
Tags: Ed Pawlowski, Separation of Church and State, Government Debt, Allentown, Politics
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The Guantanamo dilemma
When he ran for president, Barack Obama laid out the case against the detention of inmates at Guantanamo Bay: "It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It lessens cooperation with our allies on...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Yemen, Politics, Elections, White House
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Pregnant Cop's Case Highlights Discrimination Law
The Hartford CourantPregnant women are among the people protected by state and federal anti-discrimination laws, and one of the key rules says employers must make a reasonable effort to find suitable work for women whose pregnancy keeps them from their normal line of duty....Tags: Justice and Rights, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, Politics, Civil Rights, Social Issues
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Brown's prison plan faces hard questions in Legislature
Gov. Jerry Brown's "ugly" proposal to federal judges to partially ease prison crowding by leasing empty jail beds in the state drew dismay from advocates on both sides of the criminal justice debate and a forecast of "dubious prospects" from a legislative...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Politics, Executive Branch, Prisons
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Silicon Valley uses growing clout to kill a digital privacy bill
Silicon Valley has wielded its growing political clout at the state Capitol to kill a digital privacy bill that would have given consumers access to information about them being collected online. Had the Right to Know Act become law, California would...Tags: Advertising, Science and Technology, U.S. Senate, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Security
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