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Experts: Oscar Pistorius violated gun-handling regulations

...because of a wave of weapons purchases after the end of racist white rule in 1994, said Rick De Caris, a former legal director in the South African police. Under South Africa's white-minority apartheid regime, gun owners often learned...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2013-02-26/experts-oscar-pistorius-
Georgia weighs overhaul of state prison system

...push for several amendments."I think everything is still up for consideration," said Chara Fisher Jackson, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.Paroling of elderly prisoners is a goal of the ACLU. Safeguarding...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-03-11/georgia-weighs-overhau
Twitter's censorship plan rouses global furor

...pilloried for being honest about something that all Internet platforms have to wrestle with," said Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "As long as this censorship happens in a secret way, we're all losers...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-01-27/twitters-censorship-plan-r
Feds probe claims of discrimination against disabled students in Georgia public schools

...for social interaction they don't have in segregated classrooms," said Jerri Katzerman, the center's deputy legal director. "There's also benefits for students without disabilities who get more exposure to diverse learning styles...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-04-05/feds-probe-claims-discrimination-ag
Groups say religious rally improperly held at SC middle school, district investigating

...that showed him performing in the school's gym, bleachers lined with uniformed students.Susan Dunn, the ACLU legal director for South Carolina, said schools cannot skirt constitutional protections by inviting outsiders to proselytize students...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2011-09-22/groups-say-religious-rally-improper
Bus agency sued for refusing Muslim defector ads

...Americans have a right to know the truth - Islam is a religion of intolerance and violence," said Richard Thompson, legal director of the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor. "Traditional Islamic law prescribes the penalty of death if a Muslim...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2010-05-28/bus-agency-sued-refusing
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Faith briefs

...contemplate legal challenges against more than 30 other divine mentions in state documents. Edwin Kagin, the national legal director for American Atheists Inc., said the group will mount challenges only in cases it believes it can clearly win...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/09/05/rel_546988.shtml
Your Faith
Wife who helped overturn marriage bans dies at 68

...discriminatory past that could not stand in the face of the Lovings' quiet dignity," said Steven Shapiro, the national legal director for the ACLU. "We loved each other and got married," she told The Washington Evening Star in 1965. "We are not...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/05/06/met_197769.shtml
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Bill would widen use of database

...monitoring that any DNA collection and comparison" does not become a privacy issue, said Chara Jackson, the group's legal director. Currently, the state can collect and store the DNA of people convicted of a felony and imprisoned in a state detention...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/04/22/met_195878.shtml
Metro
Day laborers lose out as downturn spreads

...create a perfect storm where day laborers will be scapegoated more than they already are," said Chris Newman, the legal director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. In the past year, cities and states across the country have been...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/02/16/bus_187552.shtml
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