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Ohio Supreme Court To Hear Challenge To DRC Authority To Lengthen Sentences Based On Prison Conduct

The Crime Report

An Ohio criminal justice reform bill, the Reagan Tokes Act , is heading to the Ohio Supreme Court over its constitutionality next week after two men filed challenges against the state’s discretionary authority to lengthen their prison sentences. The Ohio Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in State v. Hacker and State v.

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SPJ Condemns Arrest of Ohio Journalist Accused of Wiretapping

The Crime Report

The charge against him is a fourth-degree felony under Ohio law, which carries six to 18 months in prison and a fine of up to $5,000. Myers was covering a murder trial when his outlet was accused of wiretapping on Oct. 31 after his outlet posted audio leaked from the trial.

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The Prison Credential Dilemma

The Crime Report

Lindsay interviewed 50 formerly incarcerated men in Ohio about how they used their prison credentials in their job search strategies. This article was originally published in College Inside , a biweekly newsletter about the future of post-secondary education in prisons, and is reproduced with permission.

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Drones Eyed as Newest Crime Forensics Tools

The Crime Report

Mark Krekeler, a mineralogist at Miami University in Ohio, and his colleagues realized that special drone-mounted sensors can record wavelength intensity for “the entire electromagnetic spectrum (rather than just the red, green and blue of a typical camera) in each pixel of an image.” .

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Can the Constitution Protect Digital Policing?

The Crime Report

That’s the argument advanced by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson in “Why Digital Policing is Different,” a forthcoming Ohio State Law Journal article. The Ohio State Law Journal article can be downloaded here. These technologies, too, are fundamentally unlike their “in-person” equivalents.

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Nonprofit Launches Push to Get Crime Victims to the Polls 

The Crime Report

The campaign, which is part of a multiyear, multi-million-dollar effort by the group to boost voter turnout among crime victims, will primarily concentrate on battleground states, including Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, where competitive elections take place and a fresh influx of voters can have a significant impact.

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State Attorneys Form Task Force Targeting Robocalls

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The task force will be led by N orth Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein , Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. The National Consumer Law Center and the Electronic Privacy Information Center found that in 2021, about 60 million Americans were bilked out of $29 billion by scam robocalls and texts.

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