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Attorney General Lockyer Summarizes Successful Bills Sponsored by Department of Justice in 2006

The revenue raised by the higher fees will allow the Division to hire more compliance and enforcement personnel to regulate cardrooms ...
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The main provisions would: create a new crime for using the Internet to prey on children; enhance penalties for possession or distribution of child pornography; strengthen penalties for sex crimes against children; add new crimes to the list of those requiring sex offender registration; add more sex offenders to the Megan’s Law web site ; increase the information about offenders on the Megan’s Law web site ; create a system of risk assessments for sex offenders; lengthen parole periods for sex offenders; prohibit sex offenders from entering schools without a lawful purpose, and increase sentences for sex offenders who loiter around schools; prohibit certain sex offenders from entering an elder care facility without registering with the facility; and revise the state’s Sexually Violent Predator law ...
Second, we had to become the online resource for tobacco-related information ...

French Panel Wants to End Public Smoking

17 states and at least 474 municipalities have enacted smoking bans in restaurants, bars and other workplaces, according to the California-based Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights ...
On the streets of Paris, even some nonsmokers say a ban would go too far ...
Evin and other supporters of the ban fear it being issued by decree would carry less weight than a law passed by the entire parliament ...

'Fatwa' website forum thrives during ramadan

Abu Malih, an expert in Sharia, or Islamic law, is categorical: "It is sometimes difficult to answer, but never impossible," said Abu Malih, who has 10 assistants who are "theology graduates" and also consults a ...
After the wave of Islamization in Egypt during the 1980s, newspapers published letters to the editor centered on these questions during Ramadan ...
From sunrise until dusk during the month of fasting, it is well known that Muslims must not eat, drink, or engage in sex ...
But what about smoking , swallowing saliva, receiving injections or having erotic dreams ...

A step in the right direction

I think it’s a strong possibility we’ll exempt bars, since you need to be 21 to enter,” Commissioner Marla Irving said, alluding to one of the most common anti - smoking arguments: the harmful effect of secondhand smoke on children ...
In sharp contrast to the commissioners’ poll, 52 percent say they don’t like the idea ...
Obviously, we’d prefer all facilities go smoke-free, but we would not pull our support for the ordinance” if it is changed to exempt facilities restricted to the 21-and-older crowd, said Kathie Fleck, area executive director for the American Cancer Society ...
What would not be so good is the possibility that the exemption for bars will not extend to bars within restaurants, for fear bar smoke would waft into the eating area ...
Just this week, the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce released poll results showing its members overwhelmingly oppose government interference in business, but were more evenly split on the county’s proposal ...

Accountability and Enforcement

No other taxes will be created or used to offset the funding losses expected by lower cigarette sales ...
All programs and departments receiving monies from the Tobacco Tax Act of 2006 Trust Fund are subject to audits by the Bureau of State Audits to ensure that the money is spent as voters intend ...
Reports will be available to the public on the department's Web site ...
The Department of Health Services will be required to provide annual reports describing all programs that receive Tobacco Tax Act of 2006 Trust Fund monies and the detailed use of those funds ...

Appeals court stays tobacco racketeering ruling

A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on the appeals court action ...
Kessler had ordered each company to post on its Web site all documents it submitted to prosecutors in the case and transcripts of letters and depositions of former employees about the health impacts of cigarette smoking or research ...
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A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted a request by the tobacco companies to stay the ruling and remedies imposed in August by District Judge Gladys Kessler ...