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  • Marsy's Law was supposed to help victims. In Jacksonville, it shields police officers.

    August 03, 2021 |

    The Tributary (Jacksonville Journalism Collective) |

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    Response Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

    A Florida constitutional amendment enacted in 2018 called Marsy's Law protects crime victims' rights, including the right to privacy when public-records laws would otherwise reveal victims' identity. But the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has interpreted a court decision to justify erasing from public records the names of police officers who shot or killed people, on the grounds that the police should legally be considered crime victims. Marsy's Law has been enacted in 14 states. Critics say it was not meant to undermine police accountability, but they have been unable to enact corrective legislation.

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  • Beirut Is Greening the Aftermath of Disaster

    August 03, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    In 2020, a devastating explosion in Beirut that came from a warehouse released 800,000 and one million tons of construction and demolition waste and 20,000 tons of shattered glass into the city. The waste was being thrown into landfills. However, landfills are notoriously bad for the environment. Out of that rubble an idea was created; disposing waste sustainably. Rubble Mountains was created specifically to do this. They've been able to restore four quarries, use materials to create public amenities, and diverting up to 50 tons of demolition waste from landfills.

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  • Giving Mother Nature a Hand

    August 03, 2021 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic

    Cervene Pecky and Dolany, two small towns in Prague, were able to fix their flooding problems through a process known as land consolidation. Prior to the land consolidation, the towns would get flooded by rainwater. Through land consolidation, property owners are able to redraw property lines. Thanks to the consolidation, the field that emptied into Dolany is now covered in grass, trees, and ditches.

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  • How L.A. cleared most Venice Beach homeless camps and sheltered many unhoused people

    August 02, 2021 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    About 200 people camping out on Venice beach were given a place to stay through a ‘housing-first’ approach. Community groups and entrepreneurs along the boardwalk pushed the city government to clear up the beach to attract more business. Temporary housing in hotels has been provided until October.

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  • Tenant Power

    August 02, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Tenants are banding together for housing rights in different cities. From collective bargaining to advancing tenant issues, the struggle for safe and affordable housing has been carried out through the efforts of grassroots tenant organizers. One such group is the New Orleans Renters Rights Assembly, which educates tenants about their rights. Others have led strikes resulting in renovations and tenant-friendly policy changes.

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  • 9 Potential Solutions to Keep Chicagoans Safer From Fires

    August 02, 2021 |

    Better Government Association |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Many cities have experienced tragic deaths in rental apartments, but Chicago's poor record in this realm is compounded by officials' refusal to concede systemic problems. So, to follow up on an earlier report about those problems, reporters compiled a list of nine effective policies and which other cities use them. In each of the areas, Chicago has failed to adopt policies that in other places have made fire safety a priority, starting with routine inspections, effective enforcement of regulations, and licensing and tracking of landlords to more easily spot scofflaws.

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  • Mental illness driving homeless 'disaster'

    August 02, 2021 |

    The Active Age |

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    Response Location: United States, Topeka, Kansas

    Community mental health centers have been strained in Kansas ever since the state changed its approach to mental health treatment by reducing hospital beds in the 1990s. The intended shift to a community mental health approach didn’t go as planned, and as a result, available inpatient behavioral health beds have drastically decreased, leaving more people in hospitals and often on the streets.

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  • Deep Roots Drive Newhallville Stakeholders To Advance Neighborhood Equality

    August 02, 2021 |

    Connecticut Health Investigative Team |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    The Learning Corridor is a community space educating local residents about health and wellness. It provides access to gardening, exercising, and reading in a neighborhood that has been ranked as “very low” for childhood opportunity. A number of community groups have also invested in the Newhallville neighborhood to improve the quality of life.

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  • Federal monitors cost millions, with disputed results. Seattle's police watchdog was a case in point.

    August 02, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Federal consent decrees install court-appointed monitors to oversee reforms agreed to by a police department and the U.S. Justice Department after federal officials have found a department violates people's civil rights. In Seattle, a long-running monitor program oversaw great improvement in the police department's use of force. But the project turned so acrimonious that the monitor called the department a failure and the department said the monitor lacked accountability and a sensible yardstick to measure success. The Biden administration has revived the program nationwide but is studying ways to fix it.

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  • How a gene machine boosts fight against TB in Kenya

    August 01, 2021 |

    Sayansi Magazine |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    The GeneXpert machine is being used to diagnose tuberculosis earlier, and can identify strains that are receptive to common medications as opposed to drug-resistant strains. The machine tests samples by extracting and amplifying genes. Based on the bacterium load in a sample, it reports whether there are low or high amounts of TB detected and has the capacity to test four gene samples at the same time with a 90-minute period. Because of early and accurate detection, drug-resistant cases have reduced nationwide, saving people the trauma of prolonged and expensive treatments for drug-resistant strains.

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