The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved several bills authored by Chair Rep. Peter DeFazio that will make transportation infrastructure safer for Americans.
The House of Representatives passed legislation to require hospitals and other healthcare employers to take specific steps to prevent workplace violence against staff and patients.
Plum School District in Pennsylvania built a $157,000 20-by-18 foot security facility with features such as bullet-resistant glass and many large monitors that enable access to more than 360 video surveillance cameras throughout the district.
The United States Senate confirmed Chad F. Wolf to become the Under Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans (PLCY).
The number of hate crime incidents reported to the FBI decreased slightly from 2017 to 2018, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report.