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27 Jul 2018, 11:48 am by luiza
The law also creates a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit at the Puerto Rico Department of Justice and establishes a Medicaid Management Information System. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 11:27 am by Joanna Kamvouris
The Puerto Rico Department of Justice plans to launch its digital Lobbyist Registry platform this week to regulate interactions with government agencies. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 8:01 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Thursday urged [letter, PDF; press release] the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] to take action against the government of Puerto Rico [BBC backgrounder] for alleged civil rights violations. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 1:44 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Today, we followed up on that report with a letter to the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division, urging them to intervene into the allegations of ongoing human rights abuses against the people of Puerto Rico at the hands of the territory’s government. [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 9:50 am by Sara Amundson
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block The federal government has filed a brief strongly defending a law that would expand the ban on cockfighting in the United States to Puerto Rico, Guam and other U.S. territories. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 2:31 pm by Lyle Denniston
”  It created three departments of government and specifies that each is “subordinate to the sovereignty of the people of Puerto Rico. [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 11:27 am by Lyle Denniston
 Among an array of other arguments in favor of their contention, the dissenters noted that the United States government has explicitly told the United Nations that Puerto Rico is no longer a territory without self-governing authority, and they noted that the Justice Department — until this case — had held the view that Puerto Rico had independent authority to prosecute its own criminal laws. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 1:46 pm by Ateqah Khaki, ACLU
They were responding to this month's scathing Justice Department report finding widespread civil rights violations, corruption and illegal conduct at the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), and a subsequent Times editorial. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 3:44 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Congress should also call on the Department of Justice to bring its ongoing investigation of the Puerto Rico Police Department, which was initiated in July 2008, to a close and issue its findings. [read post]
As these injustices continue with impunity within the police department, they have also gone unaddressed by the Puerto Rican government or the Department of Justice. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 8:38 am by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
With the facts laid bare, it is now the responsibility of the Puerto Rican government and the Justice Department to make sure the police abuse and brutality end as quickly as possible. [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 8:26 am
Department of Justice ("DOJ") reached an agreement with the Puerto Rico Police Department ("PRPD") resolving a claim that the PRPD engaged in unlawful employment discrimination and retaliation based on gender. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 1:02 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
For years we have been asking the Justice Department to investigate police brutality in Puerto Rico, and in 2008 the Justice Department initiated an investigation. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 9:49 am by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Our preliminary report finds the government, and particularly the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), has violently suppressed First Amendment protected speech and activity. [read post]
8 Aug 2019, 7:15 am
Puerto Rico’s Department of Education handed out millions of dollars in contracts, while it shut down hundreds of schools and privatized others. [read post]