The National Liquor Law Enforcement Association (NLLEA) is a non-profit association
of law enforcement personnel dedicated to the enforcement of liquor laws and regulations.
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NLLEA Training Opportunity!
VALOR SURVIVE & THRIVE: FUNDAMENTALS VIRTUAL TRAINING COURSE
This training offers cutting-edge officer safety and wellness training that brings the classroom to you. It offers answers to today’s law enforcement challenges by combining technology, relevant content, and a live panel discussion to maximize your training experience. The content is self-paced to address your time constraints and costs are covered so the only commitment needed is your time. This virtual training is a self-paced course offered over a five-week period that concludes with a live roundtable event. A certificate of attendance for 8-hours will be provided after attending the required live roundtable.
Self-Paced Start Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Live Roundtable Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2022 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Register NOW
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Call for 2022 NLLEA Annual Conference Workshop Proposals
Pittsburgh, PA-Sept. 26-28
Submit your workshop presentation proposal by March 31, 2022, if accepted presenters receive a discounted registration!
CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS
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National Liquor Law Enforcement Association
2022 Award Nomination Form
The NLLEA Awards recognize leaders and outstanding programs in the field of alcohol law enforcement. Annual awards are given in the following four categories: Alcohol Law Enforcement Agency of the Year, Alcohol Law Enforcement Agent of the Year, Innovative Alcohol Law Enforcement Program of the Year, and the John W. Britt Community Service Award. For more information on each award, visit the awards page at nllea.org.
The deadline for receiving nominations is March 31, 2022. Please email this document along with any supporting documentation to carrie.christofes@nllea.org. You should receive an email confirmation of your submission within 48 hours. If you do not receive an email receipt confirmation, please call 724-762-5939 to confirm receipt of the nomination.
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WI-One person died, two others injured in a shooting at a downtown Milwaukee bar, police say
One person died and two others were injured late Thursday in a shooting at a popular downtown Milwaukee bar.
All three victims were employees at Brownstone Social Lounge, 524 N. Water St. In a Facebook post, the business said the three were shot after a patron was turned away at the door.
"The Brownstone Social Lounge, which prides itself on being a safe haven for Black professionals, and restricts its access to young people under the age of twenty-seven to avoid the far too often unpredictable violence associated with that demographic, fell prey to a shooter who was denied access," the post said.
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Lowering Legal Alcohol Limit For Drivers Reduces Crashes And Saves Lives
Traffic deaths in Utah decreased and more drivers said they arranged for sober rides home after the state lowered its impaired driving legal limit. Utah is the first state to drop the legal blood alcohol concentration level from .08% to .05%.
A new study, “Evaluation of Utah’s .05 BAC Per Se Law,”published and released on Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), found that Utah’s recently implemented law showed promise because it not only saved lives and improved road safety in the state, it has the potential for even greater impact if similar laws were to be adopted nationwide.
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NJ-Cape May County Officials Explore Ways to Stop Unruly Teens at Shore
Groups of rowdy teenagers turned parts of the Jersey Shore last summer into their own personal playground for bad behavior.
Outbursts of foul language, underage drinking, vandalism and theft by juveniles disrupted shore towns during the bustling summer tourism season – and in some cases, police were virtually powerless to stop it.
“As you know, in the past year or so we’ve all had some issues with juveniles,” Sea Isle City Mayor Leonard Desiderio told a roomful of state lawmakers, local officials, police chiefs and prosecutors Friday during a summit he hosted to discuss the troublesome teens.
Hoping to avoid a replay of last summer, Cape May County representatives and state lawmakers are considering a series of preemptive measures ranging from new local ordinances to new state legislation to curb unruly behavior.
Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey Sutherland said he and other county prosecutors will work with Gov. Phil Murphy’s newly nominated New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin on ways to give police more authority to deal with underage drinking and other juvenile offenses.
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AL-Phenix City clerk cited for selling alcohol to minors during undercover sting
After checking 20 businesses in the Phenix City area, authorities have identified cases where alcohol and tobacco products were illegally sold to minors.
The operation, which took place on February 9, involved the Phenix City Police Department Intelligence Unit and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
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Will Biden scrap ‘anti-competitive’ booze laws to help small businesses?
In a 64-page report to Biden, the US Treasury found that America’s beer drinkers pay up to US$478 million per year more than they should do. It also revealed that there are significant barriers to entry to the markets for alcohol and that many advantages promised to consumers from previous mergers and acquisitions have never materialised. The missive may give the President the incentive he needs to amend federal legislation to ease entry into the sector and to reduce prices.
It could also open up opportunities for rapid growth in e-commerce, especially direct sales from producers to consumers across state lines.
The report urges widespread national reforms to outdated legislation that was passed in the aftermath of the Prohibition era and dictates that states themselves overhaul their own laws on alcohol distribution and production.
The report, named “Competition in the Markets for Beer, Wine, And Spirits,” resulted from Biden’s executive order issued last summer to find ways to reduce company consolidations and improve competition to protect US consumers, workers and small businesses.
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US alcohol reform will boost competition
The Treasury released a 64-page report last week examining the competitiveness of the wine, beer and spirits industry.
It said new mergers and acquisitions, different tax rates and lifting regulatory burdens to new entrants in the wine, beer and spirits would create a fairer market for new producers, and would make products cheaper for consumers.
There are more than 1,900 operating distilleries in the US, the report said. It noted how innovation in American wine, beer and spirits over the last few decades had boosted small and craft producers in local markets, but many markets are dominated by a few national brands.
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Parkland Shooting Inspires New Emergency Response System
It took the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., just minutes to kill 17 people and wound 17 others. But authorities did not reach him until he escaped the school and was arrested on a nearby street.
At Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport the previous year, where a gunman killed five and injured six, authorities quickly arrested him. But before the shooting ended, chaos enveloped police agencies who chased false rumors of a second shooter and passengers stampeded for the exits.
In both cases, argues Ed McGovern, a retired major from the Hallandale Police Department who responded to both incidents, communications breakdowns led to confusion among law enforcement agencies who lacked information on who was located where.
Now, he is ramping up a software company in Davie called CERA Software Inc., which is focused on cutting the time it takes for police and EMS to respond, coordinate and save lives in mass casualty events.
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