municipal law enforcement

• Merida Initiative

Over the past decade, drug trafficking and other criminal organizations have grown in size and strength, aggressively seeking to undermine and intimidate government institutions in Mexico and Central America, compromising municipal and state law enforcement entities, and substantially weakening these governments' ability to maintain public security and expand the rule of law.

• DISAM Journal of International Security Assistance Management
• Vol. 30 Nbr. 1, March 2008

• A Common Field of Vision: Municipal Liability for State Law Enforcement and Principles of Federalism in Section 1983 Actions

This Comment addresses the question of whether municipalities may be held liable for enforcing state laws. It argues that municipalities should not be held liable for damages flowing from the enforcement of state laws because such liability undermines principles of federalism.

• Northwestern University Law Review
• Vol. 100 Nbr. 2, January 2006

• Kenneth Christopher Curnow, a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Sandra Curnow; Ken Curnow; Sheila Efflandt; Sandra Curnow, as Administratrix of the Estate of Steven Murray Curnow, Deceased; Cris Curnow; and Sandra Curnow, as an Individual, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. the Ridgecrest Police, a Municipal Law Enforcement Agency; the City of Ridgecrest, a Municipal Corporation; the State of California, a Sovereign State; the County of Kern, a Municipal Corporation; Edward John Luarca, A/K/a E.J. Luarca; Stephen Compton; Randy Gene Bias; Jeffrey Krueger; Kurt Fowler; Jerry Linenkugel; Garry Davis; Chris Davis; Bob Pratt; and Edward R. Jagels, Defendants-Appellants., 952 F.2d 321 (9th Cir. 1991)

Dorothy Crisp, Wayne K. Lemieux, Westlake Village, Cal., for defendants-appellants. Carl K. Osborne, Los Angeles, Cal., and Elliott L. Aheroni, Encin...

• Federal Circuits

• Opportunity Knocks: Shaping California Policing

[...] municipal law enforcement agencies were reducing their staffing levels at all ranks due to similar budget pressures. First responders determined the officers were assaulted due to the discovery of a quadruple homicide. Expert Guidance An expert panel from law enforcement, politics, criminal law, and civil rights advocates was convened and provided insight to the concept of CSP.

• Journal of California Law Enforcement
• Vol. 44 Nbr. 2, April 2010

• Initiatives.

COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- www.t3motion.com - T3 Motion, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: TTTM) a producer of clean technology electric vehicles announced today that the City of Compton has placed an $109,621 order for T3 ESVs for community development campaigns with the Compton Municipal Law Enforcement Services Department. The purchase was approved by the Compton City Council earlier this month. The units are to be delivered this week. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110912/LA66230)

• U.S. Newswire
• September 28, 2011

• Extension of Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review: Law Enforcement Officer Flying Armed Training

This notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request (ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0034, abstracted below to OMB for review and approval of an extension of the currently approved collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. TSA published a Federal Register notice, with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments, of the following collection of information on August 10, 2011, 76 FR 49504. The collection involves TSA gathering information from Territorial, Tribal, Federal, municipal, county, state, and authorized railroad law enforcement agencies who have requested the Law Enforcement Officer (...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 70470, November 14, 2011
• Notices
• Transportation Security Administration

• In My Opinion House Bill 2431 Is Not What the Founding Fathers Intended

By Joan Fischer / Special to the Sunday News State House Bill 2431, recently introduced by Rep. Thomas Caltagirone, of Berks County, calls on lawmakers to introduce a constitutional amendment to replace cities, townships and boroughs with a county-based form of government under which Pennsylvania counties would have jurisdiction over municipal personnel, law enforcement, land use and zoning, sanitation, and health and safety.

• Sunday News; Lancaster, Pa.
• August 16, 2010

• Nsa Seeks Subject Matter Experts for Resource Center On Contract Law Enforcement Services

These attempts can result in: (1) inadequate services, (2) duplication and inefficiency among neighboring municipal law enforcement agencies, and (3) depletion of die already scarce financial resources of small local governments, especially in rural areas. [...] small town governments often face numerous unfunded federal and state mandates and a variety of demographic trends that are making it increasingly difficult to provide law enforcement services via the traditional, in-house municipal police department.

• Sheriff
• Vol. 61 Nbr. 3, May 2009

• Preserve the Evansville Police Department

The Evansville Police Department is the third largest sworn municipal law enforcement agency in Indiana. We handle approximately 80 percent of all dispatched runs in Vanderburgh County with the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office picking up the remaining 20 percent. My proposal to the Public Safety Subcommittee of the City-County Government Reorganization Committee is that the two departments not be merged into one.

• Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
• September 23, 2010

• Defenshield Doubles Sales Force

The new sales reps include James Briley, who will work with nonmilitary federal agencies in the Washington, D.C. area; Dauro Toscano, who will focus on state, local, and municipal law enforcement agencies as well as select international markets; and Michael VanSlyke, who will concentrate on the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines, and Department of State agencies.

• Business Journal - Central New York, The
• May 17, 2010