Late last week, a bipartisan group in both the House and Senate introduced the TL;DR Act.  The bill would require websites to publish a...

The US federal cyber defense agency (CISA) has warned all US organizations -- regardless of size and sector -- to take immediate action...

In a rare win for a mandated reporter, a Connecticut prosecutor cleared a teacher accused of failing to report suspected abuse. A...

The app issued by Chinese officials to manage Covid exposure during the Beijing Games has several security flaws, together with the...

Whenever you have time to review your organization’s policies, put your child protection policies at the top off your list.  We have...

I had the opportunity to talk to Sandra Flach of Justice for Orphans on her podcast.  She adopted 5 children, including kinship care and...

On January 11, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued guidance updating the comprehensive preventive care and...

The United States Supreme Court this afternoon granted the petition to stay enforcement of OSHA’s November 5, 2021 COVID-19 Vaccination...

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania last week overturned the suspension of a student who posted violent song lyrics on his Snapchat...

On January 10, 2022, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (collectively, the “Departments”) issued...

In Part 1, I wrote how FinCEN's proposed regulations to implement the Corporate Transparency Act contained some ambiguous concepts that...

Ben Wolf, Fractional Leadership: Landing Executive Talent You Thought Was Out of Reach (Houndstooth Press 2021).

"Whether and how to...

For lawyers, deposing a child can be a frightening prospect, especially a child who might have been the victim of a crime. We can learn a...

In its proposed regulations, FinCEN has proposed a definition of "substantial control" that will increase corporate governance and filing...

NPR has a good article on how a federal law combined with bureaucratic inertia can compound the trauma of foster care. When biological...

Georgia has a new mandated reporter law. The statute does not have any sweeping changes, but only clarifies some definitions. For...