California requires thug departments to show their training materials, but some try to use copyright as an excuse to keep them secret.
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California requires thug departments to show their training materials, but some try to use copyright as an excuse to keep them secret.
Senators have proposed a bill to end qualified immunity for officials that violate people's constitutional rights.
It should be noted that qualified immunity applies to civil suits by victims, but not in criminal prosecution.
Oregon will vote on a ballot initiative to decriminalize possession of all forbidden drugs.
Many other legalization initiatives are being pursued in other states.
It appears Connecticut proposed to raise the radiation threshold for evacuation after a nuclear power plant accident, because evacuation would be more dangerous during Covid-19 than it was before.
I won't criticize this attempt to find the safest path between two dangers. The basic idea seems valid to me. However, this should remind us that we should replace nuclear power plants with renewable energy plus storage batteries.
While renewable electric generation was expensive, the US government bought large quantities of solar cells to stimulate research to make them cheaper. That was a success. We need investment now to make large energy storage facilities cheaper.