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Recent News & Legislation

• Statement of the Honorable George Miller on H.R. 980 Public Safety Officers Collective Bargaining Bill
  
• AFSCME Provides Support for Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officers
  
• Health Care for Families of Slain Public Safety Officers
  
• AFSCME Supports Reauthorization of "COPS Improvement Act" (H.R. 1700)
  
• AFSCME Urges End to Prison Privatization
  
• Correctional Caucus Chairs Urge Support for Anti-Prison Privatization Bill
  
• Letter to Reps. Lee Terry and Mark Kennedy supporting the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Formula Program amendments
  
• Letter to Rep. Vito Fossella supporting amendment to increase funding for the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant program
  
• Letter to Rep. Louie Gohmert supporting H.R. 1751, the "Secure Access to Justice and Court Protection Act of 2005"
  
• Letter to the Senate Committee on Homeland and Governmental Affairs opposing the nomination of Tracy Henke to be Executive Director of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness at the Department of Homeland Security
  
• Letter to Representatives supporting cosponsorship of Legislation to establish the office of correctional public health (HR 2737)
  
• Letter to members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law opposing H.R. 1956
  
• Letter to Rep. Ted Strickland supporting his amendment to H.R. 3402, the Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act which would waive the matching grant requirement for certain correctional officers
  
• Letter to Representatives supporting cosponsorship of H.R. 2305, the Public Safety Act
  
• Letter to Senators supporting the Kennedy amendment to HR 4939 to provide $289 million to fund a compensation program for injuries due to a vaccine or other pandemic flu countermeasures
  
• Letter to Representatives requesting cosponsorship of H. Res. 200, "National Correctional Officers and Employees Week"
  

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