je.st

Home › advocate

Tag: advocate

Multnomah County District Attorney Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Training & Volunteer Opportunity

2016-10-11 00:19:40| PortlandOnline

The Multnomah County District Attorneys Victims Assistance Program is seeking Sexual Assault Victim Advocate (SAVA) volunteers (formerly Rape Victim Advocates) to respond to local hospitals. SAVA volunteers are on-call advocates who provide crisis response and support to victims of sexual assault that occur evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Tags: training county opportunity district

EU court advocate says general data retention law possible

2016-07-19 13:33:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) A general requirement for operators to retain certain communications data is permissible in the EU in order to fight serious crime, according to an opinion from the European Court of Justice's advocate general, Henrik Saugmandsgaard Oe. However, any such requirement must be subject to strict limits, including protecting the fundamental rights of and protection of personal data, as earlier decided by the Court when it struck down in 2014 the EU's data retention directive. The opinion was issued at the request of courts in in Sweden and the UK, where appeals were filed against national legislation on data retention. The AG's opinion is not binding, and the EU court must still take a final decision in the case before it goes back to the national courts.

Tags: data general possible law

Sex assault investigations would improve under mayors budget, advocate says

2016-05-06 23:19:33| PortlandOnline

Maxine Berstein in The Oregonian, May 3, 2016

Tags: improve sex budget investigations

Clean air advocate: California has nation's dirtiest air

2016-04-20 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Millions of Californians live in places with dirty air, according to an annual report card issued Wednesday that ranks two major urban areas in the state as the nation's most polluted. Bakersfield tops the list for having the most unhealthy days from airborne particles spewed by highway traffic, diesel trucks, farm equipment and fireplaces, the American Lung Association's State of the Air 2016 report says. Los Angeles remains the nation's leader in harmful ozone pollution from car tailpipes emitting...

Tags: air california clean nations