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Weekly Update WEEKLY UPDATE May 13 - 24, 2019 BROOKS BAWDEN MOORE Inside This Latest News I s s u e : • Last week we celebrated National Police Week and remembered those who gave the ulti- Highlighted 1 I s s u e s mate sacrifice serving their communities. The House and Senate considered multiple law enforcement related bills, including legislation to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Pro- This Week’s 3 gram. Additionally, the Senate approved legislation to reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act, H e a r i n g s / legislation to expand support for police officer family and mental health service, and they M a r k u p s also confirmed Jeff Rosen to become the next Deputy Attorney General. President Trump addressed the 38th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service, remarks here. The Legislation 4 on the Floor Brooks Bawden Moore team had the opportunity to attend numerous Police Week events in Washington, DC, including receptions at the Department of Justice, Department of P r e v i o u s 5 Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Admin- H e a r i n g s / istration, and the House Homeland Security Committee. We also were proud to host our M a r k u p s 7th annual rooftop BBQ. P r e v i o u s 8 • This week, the House and Senate were in session, with the House Appropriations Com- Floor Actions mittee marking-up the FY 2020 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill. This legis- Introduced 11 lation includes the funding for multiple law enforcement grant programs, including Byrne Legislation JAG and COPS. The House Oversight & Reform Committee held its first in a series of hearings on the use of facial recognition technology. The hearings focused on privacy con- U p c o m i n g 17 E v e n t s cerns, and the law enforcement and commercial use of facial recognition. A hearing fo- cused on law enforcement use of FR is scheduled for June 4. Additionally, the House Ener- gy & Commerce Committee held a hearing on legislation to overhaul our nation’s infra- Previous structure. Included within this legislation are provisions to upgrade the nation’s 911 sys- U p d a t e s : tems. • FY 2019 FEMA • Brandon Tribute - Recently, U.S. Attorneys Jeff Jensen, Zach Terwilliger, and Jay Town, Grants all who sit on the ATF’s National Crime Gun Intelligence Governance Board, wrote an op- ed tribute to recently retired ATF Acting Director Tom Brandon for his long distinguished • FY 2020 Budget career at ATF. Director Brandon has been a true leader within law enforcement, and de- serves significant praise and credit for his outstanding leadership of the agency. You can • FY 2019 Omnibus read the op-ed here. • Congressional Leadership • Weekly 5/6/19 • Weekly 4/29/19 • Weekly 4/22/19 • Weekly 4/8/19 Ron with Speaker Pelosi at the Police Week Ron with President Trump at the Police Week Memorial Service. Memorial Service Ron meeting with AG Barr at Police • Weekly 4/1/19 Week event. www.bbm-dc.com │300 M Street, S.E. Suite 402 Washington D.C. 20003 │ (202) 350-0103 M A Y 1 3 - 2 4 , 2 0 1 9 WEEKLY UPDATE Page 2 • Hill RISS Briefing - The National Narcotic Officers’ Associations’ Coalition held a congressional briefing on the Hill last week on the Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program. BBM’s Ron Brooks moderated a panel of chiefs and Sher- iffs which included Chief Miguel Bermudez, Chief Joseph Costa, Sheriff John Sama- niego, Chief Mike Utz, and Sheriff David Robinson. Congressional staff got an op- portunity to learn about the importance of RISS and hear real-world examples of how these law enforcement executives have used RISS resources to solve crimes and keep their officers safe. • Medal of Valor Ceremony - On Wednesday, President Trump honored 14 law enforcement officers for their acts of heroism with the Medal of Valor. President Trump stated, "To the heroes we honor today: This afternoon, we express the gratitude and pride of our nation for your immortal acts of courage." Ben Bawden and Laura Cooper from BBM had the honor to attend the ceremony, along with MCSA President Sheriff Grady Judd and MCSA Vice President of Government Affairs Sheriff Mike Bouchard. You can read President Trump’s remarks here. • Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations - The House and Senate are moving through the appropriations process, with the House Appropriations CJS Subcommittee marking up the FY 2020 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill. The CJS Appropriations bill will be marked-up by the full committee this week. The legislation includes $38 million for RISS ($1 million increase). Additionally, the bill includes $530.25 million for Byrne JAG (this is before the carveouts, and includes $100 million for convention security), $15 mil- lion for VALOR, and $239.75 million for COPS hiring. A further detailed summary will be sent out in the near future. You can view the draft bill text here. You can view the com- mittee report here. • ARTICLES OF INTEREST: MCSA Vice President of Government DNA tests reveal 30% of suspected fraudulent migrant families were unrelated Affairs Sheriff Mike Bouchard and Washington Examiner | Anna Giaritelli MCSA President Sheriff Grady Judd at Some of the migrant families arrested at the southern border weren't actually families. In a the WH Medal of Valor Ceremony. pilot program, approximately 30% of rapid DNA tests of immigrant adults who were sus- pected of arriving at the southern border with children who weren't theirs revealed the adults were not related to the children, an official involved in the system's temporary rollout who asked to be anony- mous in order to speak freely told the Washington Examiner Friday. Continue reading here. All illegal drugs in Mexico could be decriminalized in radical government plan CNBC | David Reid Mexico has drafted plans to decriminalize all currently illegal drugs after admitting that the current “war on drugs” is endangering public safety. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sketched out the country’s radical change of plan in his administration’s National Development Plan for 2019-2024, released last week. Under a new approach, drugs would not become legal, but arrests would be replaced by enforcing medical treatments including detoxification programs and attempts to break addictions. Continue reading here. Police can’t rummage through your curbside garbage without warrant, Oregon Supreme Court says The Oregonian/OregonLive | Aimee Green The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday disagreed with more than 50 years of state case law by ruling that Orego- nians retain a privacy interest in the garbage they leave on the curb for pick-up -- and that means police can’t simply rummage through it even after a truck hauls it away. The state’s residents have a reasonable expectation that after they leave their trash in opaque bins covered with a lid, no one -- including the garbage haulers’ employees -- will inspect it without a warrant, the court wrote. Continue reading here. www.bbm-dc.com │300 M Street, S.E. Suite 402 Washington D.C. 20003 │ (202) 350-0103 M A Y 1 3 - 2 4 , 2 0 1 9 WEEKLY UPDATE Page 3 Colorado Supreme Court rules police need probable cause before using pot-sniffing dogs to search for drugs The Denver Post | Elise Schmelzer The Colorado Supreme Court greatly diminished the role of police dogs trained to detect marijuana with a ruling Mon- day that created another divide between how state and federal law enforcement can investigate pot. In a 4-3 ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that, under the state constitution, a dog trained to alert to marijuana cannot be used before an officer establishes probable cause that a crime had been committed. For decades, police dogs were trained to alert their handlers to the presence of pot. But since Coloradans voted in 2012 to legalize recreational pos- session of small amounts of the drug, the dogs’ sniff tests have been controversial because they can alert even if a per- son has a legal amount of marijuana. Continue reading here. How Democrats are failing on legalized marijuana Politico | Paul Demko , Shia Kapos, and Sam Sutton This was supposed to be the big year for marijuana legalization. But in many state capitols across the country, efforts have stalled or collapsed as Democrats clash over everything from race and criminal justice to how to divvy up a gold mine of pot-tax revenue. Legalization of recreational marijuana seemed all but inevitable in at least a half-dozen states when the year began — including New York, New Jersey and Illinois, which all have Democratic legislatures. But in state after state, proposals encountered significant turbulence, and the clock is running out on the legislative season. Continue reading here. The False Arguments for Legal Marijuana Hudson Institute | David W. Murray Advocates for marijuana legalization, buoyed by success in several states, public polling numbers, and endorsement from nearly every major Democratic presidential candidate, have begun to indulge in a bit of triumphalism, sensing what they see as the inevitability of their cause. The rationale for legalization varies, from achieving “social justice” (even though racial disparities in arrests persist in legalized states like Colorado or Washington) to more blatant appeals to greed. The global legal market has been estimated at $9.5 billion for 2017, with investor testimonials projecting future markets at values between $300 and $500 billion in a few short years. Continue reading here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Hearings & Markups Happening This Week House Judiciary Committee - Full Committee Hearing Oversight of the Report by Special Counsel Robert S.
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