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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Rhode Island Newsletter for Sunday March 08, 2020 ( 7 items )  

ACLU of Rhode Files Complaint Against Narragansett for Hiding Records of Police Misconduct
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 6 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release on March 5: Calling it a "flagrant breach" of the state's Access to Public Records Act, the ACLU of Rhode Island has today filed with the Attorney General a complaint against the Narragansett Police Department for refusing to release any copies of its final investigations of complaints of police misconduct. The complaint was filed by ACLU of RI cooperating attorney James Cul  more

Five Westerly, RI Reserve Officers Win Over $110,000 in Lawsuits Challenging Illegal Forced Union Dues Scheme and Retaliation
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, March 5 -- The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation issued the following news release: * * * - Settlements include reinstatement of two officers fired after publicly challenging unlawful "$5 per hour" forced union dues scheme * * * Westerly, Rhode Island-based police officers Scott Ferrigno, Darrell Koza, Raymond Morrone, Anthony Falcone, and Thomas Cimalore have just won favorable settlements in their cases challenging a forced union dues scheme between pol  more

Massachusetts Hospitals' FY2019 Staffing Actuals/Variance Reports, Posted on PatientCareLink Website
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 7 -- The Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association issued the following news release: The PatientCareLink (PCL) website, which allows the public to see how each nursing unit in nearly every Massachusetts hospital and the Hospital Association of Rhode Island (HARI) member hospitals are staffed, has been updated with the latest actual staffing reports for FY2019. Budgeted 2019 staffing plans were posted on the site in December of 2018. The constantly changing need  more

National Association of Insurance Commissioners Testifies at Hearing on Auto Insurance Industry Practices
WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The National Association of Insurance Commissioners issued the following news release: Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer, Superintendent of the Division of Insurance, Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation, testified before Congress at an oversight hearing regarding the regulation of auto insurance discrimination. The hearing was held before the subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. The committee heard t  more

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society Journal Issues Research Articles in February 2020 Edition
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 25 -- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features applied mathematics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its February 2020 edition: * Almost-orthogonality of restricted Haar functions * Decay estimate for the eigenvalues of the Neumann-Poincare operator using the Grunsky coefficients * Discrete resonance problems subject to periodic forcing * Effective bounds on the dimensions of   more

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society Journal Issues Research Articles in March 2020 Edition
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 2 -- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features applied mathematics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its March 2020 edition: * Central limit theorems for sums of quadratic characters, Hecke eigenforms, and elliptic curves * Dual graphs from noncommutative and quasisymmetric Schur functions * Explicit upper bounds on the least primitive root * Extremal primes for elliptic curve  more

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society Issues Research Articles in March 2020 Edition
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 2 -- Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features applied mathematics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its March 2020 edition: * Anti-commuting varieties * Circular support in random sorting networks * Del Pezzo surfaces and Mori fiber spaces in positive characteristic * Dirichlet forms and critical exponents on fractals * Localization and landscape functions on quantum graphs  more