By a Biometrica staffer The total number of people held in prison has increased by over 25% since 2000, with an estimated 11.7 million persons detained in jails across the...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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By a Biometrica staffer On Monday, June 21, a federal appeals court decided to put a judge’s decision to overturn California’s 30-year-old ban on assaults weapons on hold. However, the...
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By a Biometrica staffer On Wednesday, June 16, the Justice Department’s Inspector General (IG) released an audit report about the U.S. Marshals (USMS) judicial security activities, concluding that the department...
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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...
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By Dmitry Shifrin, Mary Tobin & Lindsay Dailey Polsinelli PC, Chicago, Illinois Biometric information and biometric identifiers are becoming more highly regulated in today’s data privacy and cybersecurity conscious landscape....
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By Charlotte Spencer The United States’ DNA database laws, many may be surprised to find, are not uniform across the country. Rather, they are a patchwork of laws that vary...
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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...
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