Human Trafficking
Stats from the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline show
have been reported in New Mexico since 2007. Last year, there were 28 cases, which included 22 cases of sex trafficking and 5 cases of labor trafficking. And it appears that Federal officials have been
without doing proper background checks.
Journalists Nicole Perez and Robert Browman are taking another look at the
seven years after 11 women’s bodies were unearthed. Today, one detective continues to search for a serial killer.
Brandi Fink, an assistant professor at the UNM Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is studying
The Daily Lobo reports, “A recent issue of PreLaw Magazine named the University of New Mexico School of Law as number one in the country for public defenders and prosecutors.”
The magazine listed the school high on the list because of its strong faculty, curriculum and financial help for the students, according to a UNM press release.
The study is based 50 percent on employment, 40 percent on curriculum and 10 percent on financial. Financial itself is 40 percent based on public salary, 40 percent debt and 20 percent on a Loan Repayment Assistance Program, according to the release.
- Joe Monahan doesn’t think many of those tough-on-crime bills will make it very far in the state Senate.
- Milan Simonich says state Rep. Nora Espinoza’s “mean-spirited” bill that would allow businesses to discriminate against homosexuals still hasn’t been added to the agenda, but a bill that would take away a city’s right to set its own minimum wage rate is “alive and well” and could add to the state’s growing poverty crisis.
- The total value of the state’s permanent fund fell by 1.2 percent in 2015, from $20.2 billion in 2014 to $19.95 billion as of Dec. 31, according to preliminary estimates by the State Investment Council.
- Sen. Pete Campos, D-Las Vegas, says lawmakers need to re-evaluate “just how much we depend on a relatively small number of sources to fund state government, like oil and gas revenue, and an increasingly problematic tax code that provides far too many exemptions.”
- The bill that mandates retaining third graders who can’t read is moving forward after winning House approval, 36-27, on Friday night.
- A bill that would allow independent voters to participate in the state’s primary continues to make its way through the Roundhouse.
Santa Fe Reporter