KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Ukraine have created a national registry to document cases of sexual violence allegedly committed by Russian forces, a senior prosecutor told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Viktoriia Litvinova, the country’s deputy prosecutor general, said that the registry was created out of a pilot project that had already resulted in […]
For a decade, counselor Keisha Etienne has guided abused children in processing their trauma. But she, too, has reckoned with the years of sexual assault she experienced as a child. Etienne remembers being 9-years-old the first time she was assaulted by her aunt’s boyfriend. The cycle of abuse didn’t end for close to a decade […]
A federal appeals court upheld Tennessee’s sex offender registry law Wednesday, 14 months after a lower court ruled it was an unconstitutional punishment for some offenders. While it identified some parts of the law “potentially unconstitutional,” the state will be allowed to enforce most of them under the ruling. The ruling concerned how Tennessee enforces […]
ABBA, Blondie and The Notorious B.I.G. are entering America’s audio canon. New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include ABBA’s 1976 album Visitors, The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 album Ready To Die, Blondie’s 1978 breakthrough Parallel Lines and Gene Autry’s 1949 version of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Librarian of Congress Carla […]
Emergency contact information is used in numerous places like in schools and universities or by employers, but many New Jersey residents may not know that this information can be submitted to the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. At the MVC a system called the Next-of-Kin Registry allows individuals of at least 14 years of age […]
LANSING — State Rep. Jamie Thompson, R-Brownstown Township, recently introduced a plan that would provide parents with transparency about the conditions of school facilities in Michigan. “Thompson’s House Bills 5530-31 establish a death and injury registry that tracks incidents at school facilities and what caused them — allowing parents to see a facility’s safety record […]
OKLAHOMA CITY – Dabbing her eyes with a tissue, her voice toggling between rage and brokenness, a Delaware County woman testified in 2022 how a former boyfriend bashed her head onto large river rocks trying to drown her. That was just the beginning of her torture. During the trial, prosecutors said the woman’s abuser, Jake Atkins, […]
A bipartisan panel of Illinois lawmakers approved guidelines Tuesday covering how state police will maintain and enforce a registry of gun owners who possess high-powered firearms that are now banned. The requirement for residents who possessed guns covered by the ban before it took effect on Jan. 10, 2023, to register those firearms by Jan. […]
Ukraine’s parliament passed a law creating an electronic registry for the purposes of mobilization, lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak said on Jan. 16. As the military seeks to replenish its ranks amid the full-scale war with Russia, the government submitted a draft law on mobilization and military service to the parliament on Dec. 25, outlining plans for […]
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has completed the verification of Oberih digital registry of citizens eligible for mobilization, Ukrainian outlet ArmyInform reported on Dec. 21. The announcement was made during a meeting of ministry officials with G7 ambassadors. The ministry stated it will introduce new electronic services based on Oberih, including an online mobilization deferment service, which […]