Update as of July 1, 2024 -- Regarding National Service Requirement 2024

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Education Internship Report from Senator Charity Colleen Crouse (I-TX) - 2.24.2024

 

Begin at 2:12 am CST on Feb. 24, 2024

 

The intention of the internship was to identify areas of recommended appropriations for terms between 2 years and 10 years for various departments to begin implementation in cycles after the next one. Ie., 2023 internships are to be appropriated for by the 2025 cycle, but obligations on students would not start until after 2026 and beyond.

 

Re: “Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York” by Richard Zacks (reference February 26, 2023) and New York Police Commission – 8-week internship for First National Service Requirement - July/August 2023

 

Recommended areas:

1. Immigration

   1. Port of entry/documentation (Customs and Border Patrol)/(See Department of Homeland Security Audit from 2019 regarding “preferred re-entry program”)

   2. Immigration and Naturalization Services legal support

   3. CBP Border Patrol agents civil rights training

   4. CBP Border Patrol agents language training

   5. CBP Border Patrol interpreter hiring

2. State

   1. Interpreter hiring/training

   2. Asylum claims – civil/human rights related to asylum requests

   3. Advocacy/policy regarding worker’s rights/women’s rights/etc. in countries of origin

3. Justice

   1. Judicial reform/accountability

      1. Federal judicial commission

      2. Disciplinary process

      3. Administration of federal judicial commissions

      4. Training for compliance of federal judicial commissions

      5. Review of state judiciaries (cross-reference with 10-week internship regarding State Constitutions)

      6. Judiciary and securities (see Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for “recusal requirements” and conflicts of interest)

      7. Qualifications for search warrants

      8. Filing/court fee considerations relative to judicial personnel

   2. Police reform/accountability

      1. See April 2021 Presidential Proclamation on Internal Affairs Divisions of local police forces

      2. Budgeting for state police (see video/info on inventories September 2021)

      3. Audit review of local police budgets

      4. Officer training/interpreters

      5. Quality of life standards for local police forces

      6. Cooperative state/local and federal enforcement efforts

         1. Sex-related crimes (see proposed “Counter Sex Terrorism Act of 2022”)

         2. “Beat”/on the street patrol standards

         3. Remote surveillance

         4. Participation in trials by law enforcement

         5. Fourth and Fifth Amendment compliance by law enforcement (Constitutional training/instruction)

         6. Evidence gathering and recording

         7. Budgeting

         8. Accounting

         9. Auditing

         10. Pension and benefits compliance enforcement

4. Housing

   1. “Single-Residency Occupancy” standards and qualifications

   2. Tenancy and rent reform/control

   3. Inspections (Ie., standards regarding “Health” and “Energy”)

   4. “Work at Home” protections

   5. SMART Meter reform/revision (Ie., see “Energy”)

   6. Rental/lease credit reform

   7. Landlord requirements/oversight

   8. Tenant requirements/oversight

   9. Property taxes/accountability

   10. Appraisals (civil rights) 

       1. anti-restrictive covenants

       2. Community Reinvestment Act reforms 

       3. Housing and Urban Development program reforms/standard

   11. Homelessness and “overcrowding” as homelessness

   12. Immigration and housing access

   13.  Spousal protection

   14. Domestic Violence prevention

   15. Domestic Violence response

   16. Shelters and transitional housing

       1. Reform of existing policies

       2. Programming (civil rights)

   17. Housing and transportation

5. Energy

   1. SMART Meter and energy monitoring

      1. Home

      2. Work

   2. Production/transmission concerning single producer or group production

   3. Transmission relative to distribution

   4. Energy production relative to energy exchange 

      1. Rates

      2. Compensation

   5. Taxation and district/jurisdiction

   6. Production and civil rights

   7. Consumption and civil rights

   8.  Transmission and interstate commerce versus civil rights

   9. Full cycle property rights evaluation

      1. Beyond and inclusive of public

      2. Beyond and inclusive of private

   10. 2006 Energy Omnibus Act reform regarding legal representation

       1. Nonprofit funding for participation in cases addressing energy sector

       2. Standards regarding states prosecuting energy sector-related cases

   11. Legal Support 

   12. Copyright/patent protections

       1. Royalties

       2. Taxation

   13. International regulation and compliance relative to domestic regulation/compliance

       1. Treaties and MOUs

       2. Revision of “substitute compliance” standards

   14. Enforcement

       1. Private sector production

       2. Private sector transmission

       3. Public sector production

       4. Public sector transmission

   15. Telecommunications

   16. Digital economy/currency

6. Labor

   1. Digital economy as currency 

   2. Digital economy as compensation

   3. Law enforcement as labor

   4. In-home work

   5. Immigration and in-home work

   6. Workplace inspections for labor standard compliance as requirement to operate “workplace”

   7. Production and labor

   8. Production and ownership

   9. Taxation as producer

   10. Taxation as worker

   11. Individual worker protection standards

       1. Corporate workplace

       2. Cooperative workplace

   12. Organizing protections

   13. Organizing accounting

       1. Accounting as systematizing public sector versus private sector and various standards:

          1. Taxation

          2. Dividend payouts/income

          3. Participation in management processes including:

             1. Decision-making

             2. Enforcement 

             3. Compliance

             4. Acquisition and procurement 

             5. Marketing

             6. Distribution determination

             7. Hiring and Firing

             8. Setting and maintaining quotas

   14. Pensions and health care

       1. Pensions per person versus job = individual versus group pension plans

       2. Insurance standards and legal role

       3. Facilities insurance

       4. Insured versus non-insured health care

7. Pensions and Retirement

8. Pensions and Insurance

9. Public Health and Public Assembly

   1. Streets and sewers

   2. Public water

      1. Potable

      2. Agricultural

   3. Private water 

   4. Regulation of intoxication and public assembly

   5. Access to and by animals (including non-pets) and rodent control

   6. Transportation to assembly

      1. Right en route including privacy protections

      2. Rights en route including public obligation performance

      3. Privacy protections as regards public obligations

   7. Vehicle identification information

   8. Vehicle security

 

2:57 am CST

2.24.2024

Charity Colleen Crouse

Senator of Texas (I-TX)

 

10:03 am CST on Feb. 25, 2024 proofread/final

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10:21 am CST

Feb. 25, 2024

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