Tag: Department

Mississippi capital revamping how it notifies next of kin about deaths with Justice Department help

JACKSON, Miss. — After men near Mississippi’s capital were buried in a pauper’s cemetery without their relatives’ knowledge, the U.S. Justice Department will help the city’s police revamp policies for performing next-of-kin death notifications. The intervention follows the discovery that seven men were buried in unmarked graves without their families’ knowledge. At least three of […]

Treasury Department Pushed Banks to Eye Foes

It came to light last week that the the Treasury Department provided a listing of “hate groups,” which lumped together mainstream conservative organizations alongside avowed neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, to major U.S. banks for the purpose of monitoring financial transactions in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. Experts say the pattern […]

Defense Department AI chief: Keeping humans in the loop not always possible anymore

The level of human participation in U.S. military operations is undergoing radical change, fueled by new artificial intelligence tools capable of replacing direct human action.   The Defense Department is implementing a 2023 policy it interprets as allowing the replacement of human beings with human judgment.  The department’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, Craig […]

Labor Department finds 2 dozen children working in slaughterhouses

The Labor Department is accusing a Tennessee-based janitorial company of hiring children as young as 13 to clean dangerous equipment in slaughterhouses. According to a Wednesday filing in federal court, the department found that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC employed at least 24 child workers to scrub the gear in Virginia and Iowa. Of the children, […]