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Senators Take Aim At Future Quantum-Enabled Hacking With New Bill

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David Y. Ige | OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR NEWS RELEASE: GOVERNOR IGE SIGNS BILL ESTABLISHING NEW DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR NEWS RELEASE: GOVERNOR IGE SIGNS BILL ESTABLISHING NEW DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

Posted on Jul 8, 2022 in Latest Department News, Newsroom, Office of the Governor Press Releases

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HONOLULU – Gov. David Ige today signed HB2171 establishing a new Department of Law Enforcement (DLE). The last time a new department was formed in the state was over 30 years ago, in 1989, with the creation of the Department of Public Safety.

 

The new DLE includes the Department of Public Safety’s Law Enforcement Division (State Sheriff Division and Narcotics Enforcement Division) and Internal Affairs Office, Department of Transportation Harbors Division and the Department of the Attorney General’s Criminal Investigative Division. The new department will also include the Department of Defense Office of Homeland Security, and the Hawaiʻi State Fusion Center.

 

“Hawaiʻi is the only state in the country that doesn’t have a centralized, independent state law enforcement agency. The new department will allow more efficient and effective emergency response, criminal law enforcement, investigations and homeland security operations,” said Gov. Ige.

 

“The consolidation will centralize command and control for the State’s critical incident management, improve interoperable communications, and the ability to handle complex multi-island investigations and improve overall efficiency of statewide law enforcement operations. The new DLE will also be able to provide additional resources for other law enforcement agencies in both independent and joint operations,” said Jordan Lowe, PSD Deputy Director for Law Enforcement.

 

The projected timeline for the transition is as follows:

July 1, 2022 – Transition team begins implementation and creation of framework and infrastructure for the new DLE.

July 1, 2023 – Administrative infrastructure is established in the DLE. The process to begin filling all allocated positions begins.

January 1, 2024 – Transfer of Department of the Attorney General non-statutorily mandated investigative functions and related employees, Department of Transportation Harbors Division criminal law…

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House bill would keep cop killers only in maximum-security prisons in Georgia

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Outrage over convicted cop killer moved from max-security prison

The sheriff’s office said the man convicted of murdering a police captain in 1999 was taunting the officer’s family from behind bars. An outraged sheriff got the attention of state lawmakers.

ATLANTA – Georgia lawmakers seeking to have those convicted of killing a police officer to serve their sentences in the state’s highest security prisons. This after a convicted cop killer was accused of using his privileges at a medium security facility to taunt the officer’s family on social media.

Capt. Robbie Bishop was killed in his patrol car on Interstate 20 back in 1999. He is legendary in Georgia law enforcement, so when it was learned his family was being taunted by his killer, Jeffrey McGee, from behind the bars, there was outrage.

Capt. Robbies Bishop with a trailer of seized drugs from a photo released at the time of his death in 1999

“The families of our fallen officers have suffered enough, and Bishop’s Law would prevent these families from ever being victimized again,” said bill sponsor Rep. Clint Crowe, R-Jackson. “When I was serving as a 911 dispatcher at 20 years old, Captain Bishop inspired me to become a law enforcement officer myself, so I am proud to carry this legislation on behalf of his family. Those who murder law enforcement officers should never have the chance to obtain contraband to harass the victim’s family. I want to thank Chairman Collins for helping me push this legislation forward and giving it a chance to become a law as soon as possible.”

Butts County Sheriff Gary Long said the family of Capt. Bishop contacted him saying the state had recently moved McGee from a maximum security prison where he was serving a life term for Bishop’s murder to a medium security facility, where he was posting pictures of himself online from behind bars and taunting the officer’s family.

Butts County Sheriff Gary Long

Sheriff Long said the prison officials told him and the Bishop family that they searched McGee’s cells and found a mobile phone, but said it belonged to his cellmate and no disciplinary action would be taken.

The sheriff posted about the incident on social…

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$1.5 trillion omnibus bill leaves the House with provisions targeting ransomware and China’s digital yuan

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A long-delayed appropriations bill for 2022 has passed in the House of Representatives and is heading for the Senate as of March 9.

Included in the bill’s 2,741 pages of legislation are several provisions aiming at China’s central bank digital currency, or CBDC, as well as new requirements for ransomware reporting.

One section calls for the President to produce a report on the Chinese digital yuan, particularly the “short-, medium-, and long-term national security risks” that it poses. The risks the report would emphasize are transactional surveillance, illicit financing, and economic coercion from China.

Several US senators introduced a bill calling for similar reporting on Wednesday. 

The appropriations package also introduces mandatory reporting of ransomware payments by critical infrastructure to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within 24 hours of making such a payment. 

The new reporting requirements for ransomware attacks became a major topic of policymaking discussions in 2021, after ransomware attacks crippled the Colonial Pipeline and JBS meatpacking. Ransomware subsequently became a centerpiece of President Joseph Biden’s foreign policy. 

Some of the ransomware policy’s “whole-of-government” language would make its way into Biden’s executive order on crypto that the White House released yesterday. 

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