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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened investigations in five states regarding the prohibitions of universal indoor masking. Chief state school officers in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah received letters today from the OCR questioning the states’ decisions to not mandate masks in schools. The Education Department maintains that mask-mandate bans discriminate against students with disabilities who are at heightened risk for severe… Source link

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected in his testimony before Congress on Wednesday morning to highlight new Department of Justice guidelines for investigations and cases related to domestic terrorism. The new guidelines, as outlined in a Justice Department memo obtained by Yahoo News, represent significant changes to how cases and investigations into domestic violent extremism are handled by federal prosecutors around the country, and put in place procedures for tracking those… Source link

In the latest roundup, several companies added lawyers to their compliance departments, and a New York senator has proposed candidates to head the federal prosecutor’s offices in Brooklyn and Manhattan. To read more Subscribe to Global Investigations Review Subscribe and start… Source link

The Daily Beast Newborn Boys Were Dumped in Chicago Trash 17 Years Ago. Cops Just Cracked the Case. Seventeen years ago, a Waste Management employee was emptying trash bins in Cook County’s Stickney Township when she found a pair of newborn twins. The infants were dead, and their umbilical cords were still attached, according to Chicago Tribune reporting at the time. During the course of their investigation back then, police spoke with neighbors and pregnant women in the area, but never… Source link