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Report on 'automated decision making' in DC raises questions about accuracy, fairness, equity 11/01/2022 11:56am • A growing number of decisions that affect our lives are being made by machines. A new study highlights automated decision-making systems used by the government of the District of Columbia, and concludes those decisions are affecting fairness and equity. The Electronic Privacy Information Center's Question 4: Maryland voters asked to weigh in on marijuana legalization 10/31/2022 09:30am • When Marylanders fill out their ballots this year, they won’t only be making their picks for governor, attorney general and congressional representative. They’ll be weighing in on an amendment to the Maryland state constitution that would legalize recreational marijuana for adults. Question 4 DC man sentenced for 2013 murder at Maryland recovery home 10/29/2022 10:38am • A D.C. man will serve 40 years in prison for murdering a man at a Montgomery County, Maryland, recovery home in 2013. He's the first of three men to be sentenced in the case. Bryan Byrd, 31, was sentenced Friday in a Montgomery County Circuit Court to life in prison, suspending all but 40 years and Home detention, not prison, for Jan. 6 rioter after judge says autism played role in crime 10/27/2022 09:41am • A Maryland man who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol avoided prison and was sentenced to eight months of home detention after a federal judge ruled the man's autism played a role in the crimes. Prosecutors initially sought almost five years in prison for Nicholas Rodean, of Why accused felons in Fairfax Co. get out of jail 10/26/2022 10:10pm • Critics have complained that policy changes in the office of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Commonwealth's Attorney have resulted in violent offenders being set free while facing charges. But Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano said that data tells a different story. "The data shows that for 1 taken into custody during rally for cannabis clemency 10/24/2022 11:09pm • One person was taken into custody during a protest for cannabis reform near the White House on Monday. Cannabis reform groups, including D.C. Marijuana Justice, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Last Prisoner Project, protested President Joe Biden’s recent announcement on pardons as insuf Naval officer charged with harassment, cyberstalking, identity theft against ex-wife 10/24/2022 04:59am • A U.S. Navy officer from Silver Spring, Maryland, is in jail for an alleged campaign of cyberstalking, identity theft and harassment against his ex-wife during a child custody dispute, federal prosecutors say. In a news release, the U.S. Department of Justice said Lt. Cmdr. Jason Michael Leidel, Grants renewed for 2 groups in DC attorney general's violence interruption program 10/22/2022 04:24am • Two D.C. community organizations are getting a total of $750,000 in grants in an effort to decrease crime and violence in the District. It's part of the D.C. Attorney General's Office's Cure the Streets program. The two organizations are First Shift Justice Project and DC Jobs with Justice. The m Afghan couple accuse US Marine of abducting their baby in Virginia 10/20/2022 05:51am • The young Afghan couple raced to the airport in Kabul, clutching their baby girl close amid the chaotic withdrawal of American troops last year. The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. Special Forces raid that killed her parents and five siblings. After months in a U.S 10th person charged with blocking DC reproductive health clinic 10/15/2022 06:12am • A Pennsylvania man joined nine others who have been indicted on a charge of conspiracy and blocking a D.C. reproductive clinic. A federal grand jury in D.C. indicted Herb Geraghty, 25, of Pittsburgh, for his role in an alleged blockade at a reproductive health care clinic in Oct. 2020. Overhaul of DC’s 120-year-old ‘mess’ of criminal laws presented to council 10/14/2022 06:39pm • The process of overhauling D.C.’s criminal code finally goes before the D.C. Council for the first time next week. The bill, known as the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, “reflects the culmination of more than 15 years of planning and hard work,” council member Charles Allen, of Ward 6, c No charges for officers who shot, killed armed man at Springfield mall 10/13/2022 12:40am • Fairfax County, Virginia's, top prosecutor will not bring any criminal charges against the officers who shot and killed an armed man at the parking lot of Springfield Town Center. Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano said that his investigation found that the two officers who fire DC deputy mayor Geldart resigns in wake of assault charge, residency questions 10/12/2022 06:46pm • D.C.'s embattled deputy mayor for public safety and justice — facing scrutiny over an allegation of assault and battery and questions about his residency in Virginia — is stepping down. In a news conference Wednesday afternoon, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said she was "saddened" to announce she Curfew consequences: Why crime dropped in Prince George’s Co. 10/12/2022 01:10pm • “I could go on with probably 25 or 30 more variables for why things like that happen," said Prince George’s County Police Chief Malik Aziz, shown in this file photo. All of that put together, he added, “can go any way on any given day, because the terrain constantly evolves.” (WTOP/Michelle How to Invest in Marijuana 10/11/2022 08:00pm • Cannabis stocks jumped in early October, after President Joe Biden took the United States closer to federal marijuana legalization. But these stocks have since lost ground as Biden's pronouncement does little in the short term to change the industry. Biden said he would pardon people convicted of th