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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 20, 2020

Alabama Officers Help Truckers Buy Drive-Through Fast Food

With all dining rooms of fastfood restaurants closed and the tractor trailers too large to go through the drive-through, officers of the Eufaula Police Department are offering to get food for the truck drivers.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 20, 2020

Chicago Officers Ordered to Work Despite Possible Exposure to COVID-19

Dr. Robert Murphy—executive director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine—said the decision to tell people who have had direct exposure to a case of COVID-19 to keep coming to work is "wrong."

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 20, 2020

Maine Department Announces One Officer Tested Positive for COVID-19

The chief of police in Portland, ME, took to social media on Thursday evening to let residents know that one of his officers has tested positive for COVID-19—colloquially known as the coronavirus.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 20, 2020

California Officer Tests Positive for COVID-19

An officer with the Merced (CA) Police Department has tested positive for COVID-19—the disease caused by the novel coronavirus—and has now been quarantined to their home in Madera.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 20, 2020

FirstNet Supports COVID-19 Emergency Response

As police and other first responders work around the clock to assess and mitigate the COVID-19 spread nationwide, FirstNet says it is proud to be helping to address public safety's needs and deliver for the men and women communities are counting on most.

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Inside the Badge by Doug WyllieMarch 20, 2020

Coronavirus: Officer Health, Staffing Shortages, and Enforcing the Shut-Downs

An increasing number of officers—at least two dozen in Washington, another two dozen in California, and several more in other states—have been ordered into quarantine.

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Inside the Badge by Roselynne ReyesMarch 19, 2020

Agencies Cleaning Police Vehicles to Kill Coronavirus

The Kent County Sheriff’s Office in Michigan has set up a sanitation station for cruisers to be completely sanitized after they transport people to jail.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 19, 2020

Ohio Police Shutter Bar that Refused to Close Over Coronavirus Order

Police in Ohio took the unusual step of boarding up the entrance to a bar that held a private event for regular customers earlier this week, despite the standing order in that state to shut down operations amid the growing coronavirus outbreak.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 18, 2020

Police Week Candlelight Vigil Canceled Over Coronavirus,  Names of Fallen to be Read During Virtual Event

“The current crisis that our nation and the world is facing has resulted in the cancelation of pubic gatherings in DC during National Police Week 2020,” said National Law En-forcement Officers Memorial Fund CEO Marcia Ferranto.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 18, 2020

COPS Office Fiscal Year 2020 Grant Solicitation Deadlines Extended

The Department of Justice COPS Office has extended the solicitation deadline for several open grant programs due to the potential impact of jurisdictional emergency responses to COVID-19 that may cause reasonable delays for applicants.

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