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Every column by Calloway, by year, newest first.
The FBI wants a standard three-year approval for the forms that let police and corrections agencies use their new SAFER SKIES drone authority. The emergency approval runs out November 30, and the last comment window closes December 4.
The stopgap that funds the Justice Department at 2026 rates also blocks OMB's rewrite of federal grant rules, but only through Dec. 11. What the lame-duck session does with both decides how COPS and Byrne JAG money moves next year.
Unofficial returns show Colorado's Amendment 81 falling short while Propositions 132 and 133 lead, both starting Jan. 1. Arizona's Prop 319 caps photo enforcement at contracts signed by Dec. 31 and sends existing city programs back to local voters.
The constitutional measure on Tuesday's ballot would require peace officers, jailers and district attorney staff to tell Homeland Security within 72 hours of charging certain people whose lawful presence they can't confirm. Here is what it says, who would do the work and what it leaves undefined.
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement has proposed a licensed-examiner requirement for pre-hire and criminal polygraphs, plus a rebuilt Chapter 217 on how agencies enroll, appoint and separate officers. Comments run 30 days from Oct. 16; the earliest adoption date is Nov. 15.
Two Drug Enforcement Administration notices published Oct. 14 replace July's 7-OH scheduling plan with a new HHS threshold that also covers mitragynine pseudoindoxyl. Above the line, products become Schedule I drugs; below it, they stay a matter of state law.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics published the fiscal 2025 Justice Assistance Grant calculations on Oct. 7, still built on 2018-2020 state crime estimates. Local applications for the fiscal 2026 round are due in JustGrants on Oct. 16, under conditions tied to federal immigration enforcement.
HB 397 lets officers arrest without a warrant when a defendant charged with a listed violent crime breaks a court's no-contact order, and holds the person until first appearance. Two companion laws tighten career-offender check-ins with sheriffs and widen Florida's gang-member definition.
A final rule turns a one-time notice to the local fire authority into a yearly one, plus a closing notice when storage ends. It came in a four-document ATF package that also closes out two 2003 interim rules and opens comment on two storage proposals until Nov. 24.
The bill would have cut the PEPRA benefit age for police and firefighters to 55, opened a bargainable 3%-at-55 formula and raised the pensionable pay cap. The governor said it would partly reverse the 2012 reform.
The two monthly forms that count arrests by age, sex, race and ethnicity are up for renewal. The FBI's estimate of who files them has fallen from 8,054 agencies in 2020 to 3,381, and the notice now calls the reporting voluntary.