{UAH} Daily Headlines

Daily Headlines Thursday, August 30, 2018

FIRST UP Texas officer gets 15 years for killing an unarmed teen Rose Baca/AP A Dallas County jury sentenced former police officer Roy Oliver to 15 years in prison for the murder last year of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. Oliver would be eligible for parole in 7 1/2 years, his lawyers told the AP. The verdict is a rare guilty one for a shooting involving an on-duty officer. Read more. Pennsylvania prisons on lockdown after staff illnesses Twenty-one correctional facilities across the state were closed to the outside world after 29 employees became ill from suspected exposure to a tainted form of the synthetic drug cannabinoid — known as K2 or spice. According to the Associated Press, employees came down with symptoms including dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea and skin tingling. Read more. Hours after winning FL primary, Andrew Gillum is attacked by Trump Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum's upset win on Tuesday inspired the president to tweet that the 39-year-old gubernatorial candidate was "a failed Socialist mayor" and the "biggest dream" opponent for Gillum's Republican opponent, Ron DeSantis. The president also charged that Gillum has allowed "crime & many other problems to flourish in his city." DeSantis is being criticized for making what some are calling racist remarks, telling Florida not to "monkey this up" by electing Gillum. Read more.

DIGGING DEEPER How secret recordings are changing the workplace Seanie Blue Simone Grimes filed a lawsuit earlier this month against the Federal Housing Finance Agency for alleged violations of the Equal Pay Act. Grimes says the best thing she did at the FHFA was to secretly record the agency's director, Melvin Watt, in order to support her claims of sexual harassment. "I was fortunate that I was given the advice to record everything," she says, although "at first I felt very guilty doing that." But it may not be that easy to use surreptitious recordings to bolster a lawsuit. Eleven states require both parties to consent for a recording to be legal. Some employers forbid secret recordings and labor and free speech laws may be a factor. Secret workplace recordings involving legal cases may be more common than most people think. Johnny Taylor Jr., the head of the Society for Human Resource Management, says he's seen cases where colleagues record each other, making it hard to cultivate trust at work. "That cannot be deemed a healthy culture — it just can't be, by anyone's standard," he observes.

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