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The article focuses on the necessity of regulating artificial intelligence (AI) to mitigate potential risks and ensure its safe and ethical use. It reports the introduction of bills like the Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act and it highlights the U.S. White House's executive order on AI regulation. It also mentions concerns about the rapid growth of AI contributing to disinformation in electoral cycles and the legal complexities surrounding AI regulation.

The article focuses on Congress's considerations on artificial intelligence (AI), including its history, recent advancements like Generative AI, and potential risks. It highlights the widespread use of GenAI models like Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT), prompting discussions on regulation, oversight mechanisms, and the federal government's role in supporting AI research and development.

The article focuses on the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly its potential risks and policy considerations, including privacy concerns, misinformation, and copyright issues. It reports that generative AI encompasses various technologies capable of producing new content, such as text, images, and videos, through learning patterns from existing data, raising challenges for Congress regarding data privacy legislation.

LADR CASE NOTES MAY 2024 LADR CASE NOTE Cookie Dough Bliss Franchising, LLC v. Feed Your Soul Minnesota, LLC, 2023 WL 4901292 (D. Minn. Aug. 1 2023): Franchisor of an [...]

CASES BOUNDARY DISPUTES: One-year statute of limitations on claims challenging a trustee's conveyance does not apply to adverse possession or boundary by acquiescence. The Vaudts purchased their home in 1991 [...]

Artificial intelligence, or AI, has come to the forefront of many discussions that are related to making life easier. It's expected to influence, if not revolutionize, certain aspects of our [...]

Electric vehicle (EV) design has changed what rescuers encounter compared with automobiles that have internal combustion engines. Gone are the firewalls of the latter. They are replaced with bulkhead walls, [...]

Community risk reduction (CRR) isn't glamorous and doesn't make the nightly news with flashing lights and shiny fire trucks. However, it is a game-changer in the fire service. Interestingly, we [...]

Human trafficking is an important social issue that affects some of the most vulnerable individuals with whom correctional professionals may come into contact in their facilities. Corrections staff of all [...]

This older jail guy managed dual accredited jail systems from 1996 through retirement in 2018. In fact, in 1996, the National Commission on Correctional Healthcare (NCCHC) bestowed the Norfolk County [...]

The first session of the training is critical. In this session, the trainer gets the attention of the participants by establishing a container of safety, gaining their respect, and showing [...]

Corrections is considered an overlooked profession and correctional officers (COs) often refer to themselves as 'the forgotten ones.' The hypervigilance that officers must demonstrate while on shift can be difficult [...]

Covid Impact and Disparity in General The world faced a huge obstacle in March 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic. This had a catastrophic impact on not only the world, but on [...]

Times are changing. How we manage the inmate population is a lot different than what it was years ago. We no longer lock the inmates away, forget about them, and [...]

The status quo is costly, ineffective, and harmful. For decades, local jails have served as a costly alternative to community-based treatment, a purpose jails were not designed for or intended [...]

The past three years saw an upheaval in traditional workplace attitudes and practices throughout the United States. The fire service is no different. From the Great Resignation to quiet quitting, [...]

Collaboration provides emergency managers resources, energy, ideas, talent, funding and time. It fosters buy-in and broadens understanding. As collaborators work together to achieve a common goal, turfbattles subside, which yields [...]

Communication is crucial in regard to fires. Communication to occupants that there's a fire is more critical than ever based on today's fire growth rate and less time to evacuate. [...]

Too often in the fire service, specialty teams are thought of independently. However, there arguably is no stronger connection between two disciplines than there is between confined space rescue and [...]

DEMOGRAPHICS What is your primary title/rank? What is your age? How many years have you been in the fire service? 21 years or more 74.7% 11-20 years 14.6% 6-10 years [...]

CASES CONDOMINIUMS: Termination agreement must provide for sale of all units. The condominium, consisting of 96 units, was established in 2007. Only six units were sold to individual purchasers. In [...]

CASES ADVANCE DIRECTIVES: Standard for revocation is clear and convincing proof. The Oklahoma Supreme Court in In Re Guardianship of L.A.C., No. 120500, 2024 WL 442442 (Okla. Feb. 6, 2024), [...]

It seems that we hear about a fire or EMS unit being struck on a daily basis. Although high-speed roadways predictably are the most dangerous risk, fire and EMS unit [...]

In the unique ecosystem of correctional facilities, publications serve not only as windows to the external world, but also as essential tools for the educational and rehabilitative efforts crucial to [...]

As jail professionals, we can attest that working in corrections is a challenging career filled with responsibility, excitement, stress, boredom, conflict, and violence. From our first day working in a [...]

Part One Reprinted with permission from John Shuford from Corrections Today (January/February 2024). American Correctional Association. aca.org Our criminal justice system is in crisis, with staff shortages as high as [...]

Both the rate of opioid use disorder and the rate of overdose following release from jail or prison are disproportionately high in justice-involved populations. (1) Individuals leaving incarceration with opioid [...]

There are currently over 400,000 pretrial detainees in U.S. city and county jails (Sawyer & Wagner, 2023). Pretrial release decisions occur after an individual is charged with a criminal offense [...]

Far away from the boardroom (there are boards involved, but they are more of the variety that happen when players miss shots), gender diversity was on full display in the [...]

There is no more important decision for a board than selecting a future CEO. Whether it be for a Fortune 500 company, a health system or a generational family business, [...]

CEO pay quantum has been a topic of conversation for many years. When the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) regulations were implemented, many thought this would [...]

Dawn Zier is a bit of a numbers geek. That is not an opinion drawn from her status as chair of the compensation committee of Prestige Consumer Healthcare or the [...]

Nearly 60 years ago, as the country was being roiled by political upheaval, some directors in corporate America continued to live in a rarefied world, insulated from the turmoil on [...]

The SEC's new pay-for-performance disclosure can be used by companies and investors to test alignment of pay and performance. Based on our research, there are several important findings regarding the [...]

The following facilities received accreditation at the January 2024 ACA Winter Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Congratulations to the staff of these facilities and agencies on attaining this level of [...]

Historically, leadership roles have been held by men with women confined to supportive roles within the organizational infrastructure. While much progress has been made, women are still not consistently considered [...]

This research was supported by Grant 2014-MU-CX-0111 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. It was coordinated, in part, by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (723-ARI5). The contents of this article, including its opinions, findings, and conclusions, are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice., Gangs rank among the most significant realities behind bars. When people are newly admitted to jail or prison they confront a scene that is much different from gangs in the [...]

The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice., A program designed to create safer, more structured lives for young people in correctional facilities is showing early promise as a flexible model for institutional reform that can reduce violence [...]

The life course and adverse childhood experiences The Life Course Health Development (LCHD) Framework posits health development as an active process in multiple dimensions and at multiple levels and phases. [...]

The Four Pillars of Bioethics within the Criminal Justice System Beneficence Non-maleficence Justice Autonomy Introduction The availability of certain health services for incarcerated individuals in the United States (U.S.) is [...]

Introduction In this editorial, interviews were conducted with two community corrections re-entry professionals and a clinical and forensic psychologist with expertise in jails and prison systems. This editorial will review [...]

John is 28years old and has been mentally ill for as long as anyone can remember. His doctors say he has a schizophrenia disorder. Sometimes he hears God whispering in his ear. Other times it's Satan teasing and mocking him. John's been arrested for public intoxication, trespassing, disorderly conduct, aggressive loitering, burglary and theft. In and out of jail, he stays a few days at a half-way house, then is back on the streets, sleeping in some bushes, panhandling, gulping 40-ounce cans of beer, and hustling in exchange for drugs. Sometimes, he can't stop laughing. Other times, he cries so hard he chokes. Some days, even John agrees that he would be better off in a hospital somewhere. 'The problem is, ' he says, I don't know where to go.' Last year, John was sentenced to 10 years in prison after breaking into a woman's apartment and kidnapping her because he believed he was sent by God to protect her., The facts Because of 'deinstitutionalization' and failure to adequately fund community mental health programs, hundreds of thousands of individuals with serious mental illness have been 'trans-institutionalized' from America's public mental [...]

The Michael O. McNamee Award of Valor reflects a larger mission about what it means to be brave in the face of danger, as the award is named after Worcester, [...]

(PART) (1) For the 43rd year, Firehouse surveyed career fire departments across the United States and Canada. We will share some of the results in this issue (Part 1) and [...]

At the simplest point, the job of the fire department is primarily suppression. Yes, collectively, we provide a multitude of services, but suppression is the foundation of most departments' mission. [...]

As a crew leader, boss or officer, many points in one's career stand out. Personally, it was quite powerful when one of my team members was on rope, connected to [...]

I improved my training game by using one of the best sub-caliber training tools I have discovered in the industry, the Springfield Armory XD-M 4.5' C02 Blowback .177 BB Air [...]

CASES Keeping Current--Probate Editor: Prof. Gerry W. Beyer, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, TX 79409; gwb@ProfessorBeyer.com. Contributing Authors: Julia Koert, Paula Moore, Prof. William P. LaPiana, and Jake [...]

One of the most important tasks on the fire-ground is coordinated ventilation. In some areas, the procedure might be executed by a dedicated truck company; in others, it might be [...]

All cultures have some form of religion and prayer, but not all prayers are effective. Prayer requires intention, discipline, and faith in the one true God's power. Prayer requires humility--expressing [...]