Please join us for a free webcast of Plenary 7 at this year’s Indian Law Conference. The panel, “Surging Forward in Law Enforcement — Report from the Indian Law and Order Commission and Joint Listening Session with NCAI on VAWA Implementation,” will take place from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, Friday, April 12.
The Indian Law Section is making this panel available free of charge here.
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Boozhoo!
To the Honorable Troy A. Eid, Chairman of the Indian Law and Order Commission, and Jeff Davis, Executive Director of the Commission, and the rest of Commission members, we offer greetings and a chi-miigwetch for the opportunity to offer our views on the Tribal Law and Order Act (the Act or TLOA), Pub. L. 111-211, Title II, July 29, 2010, 124 Stat. 2263, and the future of Indian country criminal law and jurisdiction.
As you know, Mr. Chairman, our 8th Annual Indigenous Law and Policy Conference, held on October 28-29, 2011 in East Lansing, MI, was titled, “Beyond the Tribal Law and Order Act: Can (Should) Congress Enact an Oliphant Fix?” We invited a wide segment of speakers, including members of the Indian Law and Order Commission, federal government officials, tribal court and elected government officials, and American Indian law scholars to discuss the ongoing issues with the Tribal Law and Order Act and Indian country criminal law and jurisdiction. Much of our commentary here is guided by the knowledgeable, profound, and wise statements and opinions expressed in that conference.
The Indian Law and Order Commission, created under the Tribal Law and Order Act, has just introduced a new website here:
http://www.indianlawandordercommission.com/
It has materials about the Commission and its members, the TLOA, and other resources.
Here is the article from ICT.
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The Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA), signed into law by President Obama last July with bipartisan support, makes federal agencies more accountable for serving Indian lands. TLOA also provides greater freedom for tribes to design and run their own criminal justice systems.
TLOA’s reforms—including enhanced sentencing options for tribal courts, expanded Indian Country law enforcement training, and greater transparency for federal prosecutors who decline to file cases—are welcome and long overdue. Yet many of the greatest challenges to securing equal justice for Native Americans living and working on Indian lands are structural. They’re rooted in a system of federal institutions, laws and practices that pre-date the modern era of tribal sovereignty and self-determination, and which TLOA does little or nothing to change.
That’s why TLOA created the Indian Law and Order Commission. This independent, all-volunteer advisory group, whose nine members were appointed by the President and Congress, is charged with looking beyond the horizon.
TLOA directs the Commission to report back to the White House and Capital Hill next year with specific proposals to make Indian Country safer and more just, so that Native Americans may finally receive the full protections guaranteed to all U.S. citizens by the Constitution.
Here is the news article.
Congrats to Troy!!!!
Article here.
Thanks to T.E.
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