Public Safety & Justice Update 10/21/22 

Federal judges have struck down gun restrictions in the months since a Supreme Court decision that expanded Second Amendment rights…

 Gun owners in San Jose who disobey a requirement to carry liability insurance and pay a yearly fee will pay up to $1,000 in fines as part of the city’s push to combat gun violence…

New Jersey residents hoping to carry guns in public would be required to buy insurance and complete gun-safety training under a measure introduced by legislative leaders last week…

 In June 2021, the city of Baltimore  launched the Behavioral health 911 Diversion Pilot Program…

 A report released Wednesday, 10/19, from 97Percent, a bipartisan group of gun owners and non-gun owners that conducts research on gun safety policies, surveyed 1,078 gun owners nationwide to examine their perceptions of specific gun safety policy details…

 Caliber Change Makers Academy was put on lockdown last week after reports of shots fired in the premises of the school…

 Two reports of rape at Stanford University in the last two months have raised issues of how univiersity officials prevent sexual violence, support victims and hold perpetrators accountable, sexual violence prevention advocates…

Texas school districts are set to receive nearly $8 million from the Justice Department to improve campus security this year through funding from the bipartisan gun safety law passed this summer…

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz was spared the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison last week by a Florida jury for carrying out the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that claimed 17 lives…

 Millions of Texas K-8 students will get identification kits designed for parents to collect fingerprints and DNA to be used in case their kids are in an emergency such as a school shooting…

Between 2014 and 2020, the number of smaller gunmakers — those producing fewer than 50,000 weapons a year — surged 70 percent to more than 4,700, according to a Bloomberg analysis of the most recent federal data…

 The suspect in a string of killings has been charged with three counts of murder in San Joaquin County Superior Court…

 Abusers are less likely to return to abusing their partners if they complete an intervention program required by the courts, according to the California State Auditor, but many of them do not finish the courses…

 Santa Clara County has set aside $2.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of people held in jail long after prosecutors decided not to charge them — sometimes for several days — during a two-year window that coincided with the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic…

 A federal judge sentenced longtime Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon to four months in jail for defying a subpoena from lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol…

 President Joe Biden’s administration says it needs more money to bring Jan. 6 rioters to justice…

 The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to issue a subpoena for testimony and documents from former president Donald Trump before the end of the week…