Funds for crime victims payors debate across states
The piece surveys how states finance crime victim compensation, noting Washington pays about 70 percent approval for claims and New Jersey faces backlogs, while Rhode Island leans on federal funds. It contrasts programs in California New York Minnesota and others and discusses funding mechanisms from general funds to court fines.
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Rhode Island
U.S. Congress
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Peter Rodina
House Judiciary Committee
Roding
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New York
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Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Nevada
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Washington
Winslow
From N Y to Calif Baby selling ring run by lawyers
Triggered by investigations prosecutors across the country have pursued several lawyers for illegal baby sales. The network allegedly involves hospitals doctors abortion clinics and lawyers referring unwed mothers to baby brokers. Detroit KNS prisoners in Michigan's sole women's prison filed a sex discrimination suit citing denial of job training and education compared with male inmates.
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Calif
Detroit
KNS
Michigan
Detroit House of Correction
Detroit House of Corrections
Ice
Ban on Lie Detectors Backed in Private Firms
A U S Fear Protection Study Commission plans to urge banning lie detectors and other privacy intrusive methods in private businesses. The panel would also push limits on insurer data gathering and give consumers greater access to their credit files. The recommendations apply to private organizations only and exclude government law enforcement. Ware urged confidentiality rules and noted polygraphs and psychological stress evaluators as targets. The final report to Carter and Congress is due in late June.
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Gathenedung, Md
U.S. Fear Protection Study Commission
Wills Ware
Ware
A-Rand Corp
Commission
Carter
Congress
Federal reforms urged to expand access to credit files
A commission recommends changing federal law to let consumers see and copy their credit files. Current law requires disclosure of content but not the right to sell or obtain copies. The goal is to curb broad, open-tooled insurance style forms and to tighten access to personal data.
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Commission
Ware
Street kids outwit FBI in Midtown ransom caper
East Side schoolkids sparked a dramatic scene as they stole a $10,000 suitcase from a trash can used for extortion payment. Police and FBI staged a second drop, but two other children seized the bag, forcing a late night chase. The money was recovered, the extortionist vanished, and investigators deemed the episode a chaotic street-drama.
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New York
KNS
East Side
FBI
Citibank
PS 19
G-men
Feds
Lloyd Nolan
Shapp supporters urged fund-raising at Harrisburg dinner
The FBI is probing a January 17 1976 dinner at the governor’s mansion in Harrisburg where Shapp backers discussed soliciting money from multiple states to qualify for federal funds. Norval Reece and Peter Brill described plans to raise $5,000 from each of 29 states, while campaign officials insisted no illegal activity occurred. Eleanor Elias, tied to a separate solicitation effort in Texas, Georgia and Alabama, was named by investigators and has declined comment.
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Washington
FBI
Pennsylvania
Milton J. Shapp
Federal Election Commission
FEC
Shapp
Harrisburg
Norval Reece
Commerce
Peter Brill
Dr. Brill
University of Pennsylvania
Norval
Brill
Eleanor Elias
Elias
Texas
Georgia
Alabama
Tampa woman sues over decoy prostitution payouts
Brenda Bowden says police promised her five dollars per arrest as a paid decoy prostitute but paid only forty seven dollars for four months in 1975. Police acknowledge work as a confidential informant and investigate if promises and payments were made for up to 500 cases. Records show 20 to 30 men were arrested nightly along Dale Mabry for soliciting prostitution, with most opting for fines.
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Tampa
Fla
Brenda Bowden
Charles Otero
Otero
Miss Bowden
Dale Mabry
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