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Oregon Criminal Justice Commission on Public Safety Report (aka De Muniz Report)
The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission’s Commission on Public Safety issued its December 30, 2011 “Final Report to Governor Kitzhaber” (also known as the De Muniz Commission Report)….
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When Public Records Laws Trump HIPAA (Nebraska)
I saw this story at a May 17, 2009, PI Buzz blog post (3rd paragraph) and thought I’d blog about it here given the strong (ish) public records laws…
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Criminal Background Checks on Employees and Volunteers
…can, however, online learn enough about criminal records searching to gain a fair amount of knowledge and judgment on when and how to hire a professional. (You can also learn…
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Journalists Keep Getting the Law Wrong (via Seth Abramson)
Is there a journalist reporting on the (not yet released except to Barr, selected Rs and pundits, selected West Wingers, and others?) Mueller Report who has read the…
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Next time you say, “well, he must be guilty of something …”: Your Worst Nightmare
ABA Journal magazine: “Prisoner exonerations are at an all-time high, and it’s not because of DNA testing,” by Kevin Davis, September 1, 2014. ‘…. And even when he…
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America’s Body Cam Laws: NPR Survey
We are a country of federal, state, and local laws (and international treaties, for that matter). So when someone asks, “What’s the Law On …,” law librarians and lawyers…
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Oregon CLE: Continuing Debate Over the Sequential Lineup
The Oregon Innocence Project is presenting this CLE, scheduled for Feb. 5, 2016: Continuing Debate Over the Sequential Lineup “Presented by Oregon Innocence Project and featuring Professor Daniel Reisberg….
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Beyond February 14th: Love, Adultery, and Madness in American History
If you think you live in the most interesting of times, you are not reading enough history – or not reading the right wild and crazy stories that…
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Oregon Innocence Project (OIP) Event: “Picking Cotton” Authors: Eyewitness Identification, Wrongful Conviction, and Forgiveness
OIP Event: This is Innocence: May 15, 2015, at Mercy Corp Action Center (Portland). Guest speaker Jennifer Thompson, a rape victim who wrongly identified her attacker and sent…