APD Consent Searches Decrease

Consent searches often linked to racial profiling

"...it, taken from the department’s annual racial profiling report: Consent searches by Austin officers decreased in 2011 – from..."

March 28, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

A UT Law professor's tremendously nuanced collision of big ideas

"...Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Centuryby Philip Bobbitt Knopf,..."

May 23, 2008 Books Review by Spencer Parsons

Sex Education Update: Respect, Consent, Responsibility

AISD gathers feedback on potential changes to Human Sexuality and Responsibility curriculum

"...an emphasis on the "responsibility" portion of the course. Consent with regard to sexual contact has been a part..."

Nov. 16, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

A Consent Decree for APD?

Civil rights activists say it's needed

"...litigation against the city that would result in a consent decree – a binding settlement agreement between the feds..."

June 27, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

On Consent: AISD Employees See Increased Wages

A 1.5% increase will go to district employees

May 26, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Common Law

Minors getting ink: Can an under-18 teenager get a tattoo in Texas with parental consent?

"...get it as long as one of my parents consents. Is that right? – E.T...."

March 5, 2021 Column by Luke Ellis

AISD Board to Lengthen Carstarphen Contract Tonight

As early voting starts, outgoing board extending deal to June 2015

"...Austin ISD's board of trustees does love its consent agenda. That's how they started the process of handing..."

Oct. 22, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

APD: Complaints Decrease, Disciplinary Actions Increase

Police monitor releases annual report

"...Beginning next month, any time Austin Police ask for consent to search an individual during a stop – traffic,..."

July 23, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Judge to Feds: Obey the Law

Orders Department of Justice to begin releasing children and mothers

"...Department of Justice was not only violating a 1997 consent decree concerning immigrant children but had provided little justification..."

July 28, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 4

With the consent of the governed, the United States government has gone rogue and violated international law

"...the practice is 'never ethically acceptable' unless a prisoner consents or is unable to make a rational choice" (Time,..."

June 14, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Fifth Circuit Approves Mandatory Ultrasound

It's just informed consent, they say

"...new ultrasound-before-abortion bill is only to ensure the informed consent of women seeking abortion, a three-judge panel of the..."

Jan. 11, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Puppy Mill Bill In Trouble?

Is bill in trouble from puppy-mill area lawmaker?

"...mill bill" is appropriate for the House's Local & Consent calendar is, ostensibly, the issue holding up Rep. Senfronia..."

April 15, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Arthur

The bubbles have gone out of Russell Brand's remake of the 30-year-old original.

"...whom Arthur is to wed. No sooner does Arthur consent to the nuptials than he meets working-class Naomi (Gerwig)...."

April 8, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fat Girl

"...gender power plays, the thin line between rape and consent -- and has chosen to articulate her point using..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Instinct

"...change wrought by Turteltaub -- with the author's apparent consent -- is elimination of Quinn's magical-realist flourish of making..."

June 4, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Deconstructing Harry

"...veiled fictional recreations, and also appropriates and distorts (without consent) the lives and intimate details of the others who..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Problem Child 2

"...it has since then vanished. But how he could consent to appear in this slapped-together claptrap is beyond comprehension,..."

July 12, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

AISD Previews New Sex Ed Lessons

Updated curriculum addresses sexual orientation, gender identity, and consent

"...new curriculum standards requires students to begin learning about consent in the third grade.) Get Real was recently updated..."

May 24, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin ISD Trustees Support Sex-Education Update

Trustees likely to support new K-8 curriculum

"...the proposed curriculum include a more modern approach to consent, the effects of social media on body image, and..."

Feb. 22, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Bill of the Week: Immunization Choice for Children

Rep. Sarah Davis’ HB 97 would grant children the right to consent to their own immunization for cancer treatment

"...HB 97 would grant children the right to consent to their own immunization for cancer prevention and/or treatment,..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Sadie Dupuis, Slugger

“Is rape culture sexy? That’s what’s reinforced by pop music”

"...brainy songwriting and themes of female empowerment and sexual consent. She plays Mohawk next Wednesday...."

Dec. 1, 2016 Music Post by Libby Webster

Bill of the Week: Just Say No

Bill would keep Planned Parenthood out of sex ed

"...BOTW, which would require an additional layer of parental consent for public school student participation in sex education classes..."

Feb. 17, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

GP Crush of the Week

PINK ♥s Consent is an inspiration.

"...told you about Baltimore feminist group FORCE’s PINK ♥s Consent Campaign. Last week, the group sent press releases out..."

Dec. 13, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Straus' Big Test

House speaker suggests both caucuses tiring of chub and its causes

"...whip-cracking manager. Even with Democrats using the Local and Consent Calendar as a delaying tactic to keep voter ID..."

May 23, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Racial Profiling Data Illuminating, yet Inconclusive

The nation's most comprehensive study to date shows a pattern suggesting profiling, but reporting methods need more uniformity

"...the search data, researchers paid particular attention to so-called "consent" searches, searches where an officer relies on his own..."

March 11, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

More Damning Data Against Racial Profiling

Activists recommend abolishing "consent" searches

"...profiling in police traffic stops reveals that while so-called "consent" searches are down, such searches are still more likely..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

APD Racial Profiling: New Numbers, Old Questions

The 2003 report shows disparities but also problems with the data itself

"...searches and, in particular, stops that end with a consent search. A consent search, used when police may have..."

March 26, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Color of Fire

The Austin Fire Department is making another attempt at staff diversity – will it do any better this time?

"...denied the government's claim but agreed to a five-year consent decree to resolve the issues raised by the complaint...."

May 13, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Search Results

Police monitor's report invites additional scrutiny

"...vast majority of all searches, regardless of race, are "non-consent" searches – those incidents in which officers have probable..."

July 22, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10     NEXT ›    31 »