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SpartanNash Welcomes Rona Caswell as VP, Internal Audit
Caswell will oversee compliance with company financial standards, manage
enterprise risk-management plans
SpartanNash
today announced Rona Caswell has joined the Company as Vice President, Internal
Audit. Caswell will drive the success of the annual internal audit plan, oversee
compliance with Company financial standards and lead enterprise
risk-management plans. She will report jointly to Chief Financial Officer
Jason Monaco and the SpartanNash Board of Directors Audit Committee.
Prior to joining SpartanNash, Caswell served as the VP, Global Internal Audit at
Perrigo Company, LLC, a role she held since 2014. She also held assurance roles
at BDO USA, LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Caswell earned her bachelor’s degree
in accounting from Michigan State University and is a certified public
accountant.
Read more here
Bryan Lee, MBA, CFE, CFI named Senior Loss
Prevention Manager for Amazon
Before
joining Amazon as a Senior Loss Prevention Manager, Bryan spent more than three
years with Domino's as Group Manager - Safety, Security & Loss Prevention. Prior
to that, he spent more than three years as a Regional Asset Protection Manager
for Weis Markets. Earlier in his career, he held loss prevention roles with
Sherwin Williams and JCPenney. Congratulations, Bryan! |
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The Road to Recovery Spring 2021 Symposium
Join global executives, Wednesday, May 26th, and Thursday, May 27th, for
The Road to Recovery Spring 2021 Symposium. This 2-day event will focus on
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operations, and help organizations manage their reputations and communications
to foster consumer safety and trust.
President Bill Clinton would be kicking off the symposium followed by
executive C-level panels on May 26 and May 27. We’ll be hosting roundtables
specifically for security and IT professionals to discuss tackling the
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Protests & Violence
Gun injuries put over a half-million people in hospitals from 2000 to 2016,
study finds
First-of-its-kind database provides state-level estimates of gun
hospitalizations over time
Tens
of thousands of people are admitted to hospitals for gun injuries every year,
according to
a first-of-its-kind database that underscores how the societal costs
of gun violence extend well beyond mortality.
Developed by researchers at the Rand Corp., a California-based think tank, the
study found roughly 550,000 people were admitted for gunshot wounds from 2000
to 2016, representing billions of dollars in health-care costs annually, as
well as untold pain and suffering.
The data comes as narrow Democratic control of Congress and the White House has
ushered in
hopes among advocates for new policies intended to curb gun violence in
the United States. A spate of
high-profile mass shootings in 2021 has ratcheted up pressure on
lawmakers to act.
Much of the research on gun control deals with homicide and suicide data because
state and federal governments typically keep detailed records of how and when
people die. But injuries also exact a considerable economic and public health
toll: Gun-related hospital visits account for an estimated
$2.8 billion in health-care spending annually, as well as
billions more when lost work and wages are factored in.
A
2017 study found that the average gunshot patient incurred hospital costs of
more than $95,000.
Shootings never stopped during the pandemic: 2020 was the deadliest gun violence
year in decades
Precise numbers for those hospitalizations, however, have previously been
unavailable. There’s no comprehensive national database of gunshot injuries, for
instance. And as the Rand researchers found, the quality of hospitalization data
varies widely from state to state. Editor's Note: The exact same thing
we run into in compiling our crime reports.
The
Rand data include estimates of gun-related hospitalizations for all 50 states
from 2000 through 2016. The people behind the database hope their work will
allow other researchers to better understand how state-level policies influence
gun violence.
At the state level, gun injuries roughly track the better-known homicide data.
Louisiana leads the nation with an average of 24 gun hospitalizations for
every 100,000 people each year. At the bottom of the list is Hawaii, with less
than one-tenth the injury rate of Louisiana.
At the state level, gun ownership rates aren’t closely correlated with gun
hospitalizations. There’s a well-known relationship between
gun ownership and suicide, for instance. But that relationship doesn’t
apparently extend to gun injuries. Morral said that injuries, however, are
closely correlated with rates of violent crime overall. And that suggests
another driver: poverty.
People living in poor households “had more than double the rate of violent
victimization” than those in high-income areas.
washingtonpost.com
Give back NY judges’ power to require bail for clear threats to public safety
At least Bronx Judge Louis Nock tried: He
set bail for the accused serial synagogue vandal at $20,000 on the theory
that smashing glass counts as a violent felony and so allows for remand even
under New York’s noxious “no bail” law. But a different judge
cut suspect Jordan Burnette loose under supervised release just hours later.
By conventional thinking, none of the
42 counts allowed for bail to be required for the perp, not even the several
hate-crime offenses.
Notably, Nock recently lamented, “My hands are tied” by “the new bail rules”
as he
released without bail a man charged with attacking an undercover Asian cop.
And Bronx Assistant District Attorney Theresa Gottlieb agreed that “given the
number of attacks, we probably would have asked for substantial bail before
January of 2020.” But, she went on, “The Legislature did not include hate crimes
in its revision of bail reform and, under the law as it exists today, this is
not eligible.”
This, for the accused culprit in an 11-day terror spree. Yes, terror: The
shattering of synagogue doors and windows is a blatant echo of Kristallnacht
(“Night of Broken Glass”), when mobs of Nazis attacked German Jews’ houses of
worship, stores and homes, setting many ablaze — the prelude to the Holocaust.
nypost.com
13th Straight Day of Demonstrations in NC
Elizabeth City, NC: More arrests Monday night as protests continue over
Andrew Brown Jr.'s death
On
the day that Andrew Brown Jr. was laid to rest in Elizabeth City, at least
four more people were arrested during evening protests. Monday marked the
13th day demonstrators were out on the streets seeking justice following the
shooting death of Brown by Pasquotank County deputies attempting to serve an
arrest warrant.
Around 8:30 p.m. four people walked out the Pasquotank County Courthouse after
being arrested and charged with impeding traffic. One of those arrested
was Kirk Rivers, the brother of the President of the Pasquotank County Chapter
of the NAACP. Kirk says, “The four of us were all arrested together because we
believe in the justice for Andrew Brown.”
The protesters say they will continue to be out every day at 5:00 o’clock to
protest.
witn.com
In Colombia, 19 Are Killed in Pandemic-Related Protests
At least 19 people were killed and hundreds more injured during days of protests
across Colombia, in which tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets
to demonstrate against a tax overhaul meant to fill a pandemic-related fiscal
hole.
nytimes.com
COVID Update
247M Vaccinations Given
US: 33.2M Cases - 591.5K Dead - 25.9M Recovered
Worldwide:
154.2M Cases - 3.2M Dead - 131.6M Recovered
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Private Industry Security Guard Deaths: 279
Law
Enforcement Officer Deaths: 297
*Red indicates change in total deaths
CVS Says Covid-19 Vaccinations Slow as U.S. Rollout Runs Into Hesitancy
CVS says demand for shots down about 30% after administering more than 17
million doses in the U.S. The pharmacy chain has administered more than 17
million shots, which are now available at more than 8,300 U.S. locations. Like
rivals, CVS has begun offering same-day appointments for injections in a bid to
improve uptake.
wsj.com
Workers are slowly returning to offices: Dallas takes the lead, while San
Francisco and NY trail behind
The number of employee office visits in 10 large cities reached 26.1% of the
pre-pandemic level the week ending April 21, according to Kastle Systems, the
largest provider of technology that tracks such data through swipes of keycards
and other devices. While Dallas and other Texas metro areas have solidly topped
that average, cities such as San Francisco and New York have lagged.
usatoday.com
OSHA increasingly issuing COVID-related
citations
OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) Coming
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) has changed its mind
and has decided to issue Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) that
employers will be expected to adhere to regarding COVID-19 in the workplace. It
is estimated that the ETS will be published no later than June.
OSHA is already increasingly issuing COVID-related citations under the
General Duty Clause of the OSH Act to require employers to mandate, e.g.,
masking and social distancing.”
OSHA also chose to recently unleash a National Emphasis Program regarding
stepped-up enforcement efforts nationwide, initially targeting the hospital
and healthcare industry.
ehstoday.com
Which Health & Safety Attributes Most Important to Consumers
3rd Study- 2,000 Americans Surveyed - 25 Brands in 4
Key Industries
Whole Foods Best at Implementing COVID-19 Safety Measures
Whole
Foods Market was a big winner in Ipsos’ Health and Safety Best Brand Awards,
presented by global research firm Ipsos based on the results of the latest
“Consumer Health & Safety Index,” an in-store benchmarking study that assesses
how retailers are operating more than a year into the pandemic.
“The brands receiving Ipsos’ Health & Safety Awards are being recognized for
their responsiveness, diligence and excellence in creating safe in-store
experiences for both customers and employees,” said Shohini Banerjee, SVP,
U.S. channel performance at New York-based
Ipsos.
The Mystery Shoppers visited almost 3,500 individual locations and
evaluated each brand’s compliance with key health-and-safety measures.
These included areas such as social distancing, mask compliance, cleaning and
hand sanitizer availability. Top-performing brands were given awards for their
overall performance, with awards also bestowed by category to highlight the
individual nature of the marketplace in which these brands compete.
In the grocery category, Whole Foods and Food Lion led the pack, with
Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods holding on to its No. 1 spot from previous
Ipsos studies and also earning the Best in Industry designation. Salisbury,
North Carolina-based Food Lion was No. 3 in the grocery industry but
was recognized as a Best in Category winner for the presence of sanitizers
at strategic points in its stores, including at entrances, checkouts and in
restrooms.
Among big-box retailers, while Richfield, Minnesota-based electronics store
chain Best Buy kept its spot as the top performer in the big-box industry,
winning the Best in Industry, Minneapolis-based Target demonstrated
improvement in its focus on health and safety, coming in second in the big-box
industry and winning the Best in Category award for cleanliness. Issaquah,
Washington-based Costco, which has consistently demonstrated strong
performance across several waves of the Ipsos’ index, came in third, and
also received the Best in Category award for restrooms and barriers to enforce
distancing.
As well as garnering Industry and Category awards, Whole Foods, Best Buy,
Target and Costco received Best Overall Brand awards. These brands
demonstrated strong performance through the end-to-end customer journey, setting
them apart from the rest of the 24 participating brands in the Index.
Each brand included in the third wave of “Ipsos’
Consumer Health & Safety Index” received scores for their compliance to
each of the health-and-safety policies observed by mystery shoppers.
progressivegrocer.com
Almost half of U.S. workers suffering from mental health issues due to COVID
Published Today in ehstoday.com
Employees Need Help with Mental Health
“The stigma of mental illness, therapy and mental health at work can keep
many employees from using resources,” said
Dr. George James, a licensed marriage and family therapist and member of the
CNBC Financial Wellness Council. “So it has to be driven, encouraged and
supported from the top down."
And that’s where EHS professionals can step in. Unfortunately, they have a
strong case to make in creating a workplace program since almost half of the
American workers are suffering from mental health issues due to COVID-19,
according to a report,
2020
Behavioral Health Impact Update.
This number is up significantly, 46% compared to 39% prior to COVID-19.
However, 39% is still a large part of the workforce that is dealing with these
issues, and most are probably dealing with it alone.
Across the country, mental health associations have been vocal about the need to
address this issue. In December 2020, the CEOs of 14 mental health advocacy
organizations and professional organizations formed a coalition to engage with
all levels of government—federal, state and local—to recognize, but more
importantly address the issues.
“Just as the public health care system was unprepared for a pandemic, an
unprecedented mental health crisis
afflicting half of all Americans has overwhelmed the mental health care
system. Since the onset of the pandemic,
prevalence of depression symptoms have jumped three-fold,
overdose deaths have increased in 40 states and the
CDC reports that 25% of young adults struggle with suicidal ideation,”
the group said in a release. To address this they created a plan,
A
Unified Vision for Transforming Mental Health and Substance Use Care · Well
Being Trust.
The CDC, in a document entitled
Mental Health in the Workplace, points to the workplace as being an
effective place to address the issues due to its inherent structure.
ehstoday.com
From Hot Spot to Hope
New York Region to Accelerate Reopening, Raising Hopes and Anxiety
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are
pushing ahead with May 19 reopening plans, and the subway will return to 24-hour
service.
New
York and its neighbors New Jersey and Connecticut announced on Monday that
they were lifting almost all their pandemic restrictions, paving the way
for a return to fuller offices and restaurants, a more vibrant nightlife and a
richer array of cultural and religious gatherings for the first time in a year.
The relaxation of rules starting May 19 is a testament to the fact that
coronavirus cases are down and vaccination rates are rising, offering a
chance to jump-start the recovery in a region that became a center of the global
pandemic last spring.
New York will also bring back 24-hour service to the subway on May 17,
after a year of overnight closures, a move critical for night-shift workers and
a symbolic boost to a city that takes pride in a transit system that had, until
the pandemic, never closed for extended periods.
nytimes.com
DeSantis declares COVID ‘state of emergency’ over in Florida,
overrides local restrictions
Declaring Florida’s COVID-19 emergency over, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed
an executive order invalidating all remaining local emergency COVID orders
and signed a bill into law that bars businesses, schools and government entities
across Florida from asking anyone to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.
yahoo.com
McKinsey and Company
Speaking out on purpose
Like it or not, as a company leader, you play an important part in helping your
employees find their purpose and live it.
Our insights
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Why it matters. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many employees to reevaluate
both their personal and work lives. Many now expect their jobs to provide
purpose. If a company can’t meet that goal, employees will seek out one that
will. Getting purpose right can create well-being both for individual
employees and your company.
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What employees want. Purpose comes from forces outside work, as well as
from daily work itself. But mandating purpose will backfire. Instead, CEOs need
to see themselves as employee influencers rather than controllers. It’s time to
start closing the gap between the experiences of upper-level management and
frontline employees when it comes to opportunities to truly live purpose at
work.
Find Your Purpose
Over Last Five Years Over 300 Inspections &
$9.3M in Proposed Penalties
Dollar Tree Faces $265,000 in Penalties for Repeat Safety Violations
In the past five years, the discount retailer has been inspected more than
300 times that have resulted in more than $9.3 million in proposed penalties.
Dollar Tree store workers across the country continue to face the same hazardous
working conditions at the national discount chain as they have for many years.
Since 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has inspected
company locations more than 300 times.
Following an October 2020 inspection at a Dollar Tree store in Beverly Hills,
Florida, OSHA determined that the company exposed workers to fire, entrapment
and struck-by hazards, blocked exit routes, and improperly stacked boxes and
other materials that might fall and injure workers.
OSHA proposed $265,265 in penalties.
Since 2018, inspections at Dollar Tree Stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and
Tennessee have resulted in proposed penalties of more than $1.3 million.
Nationwide, Dollar Tree inspections in the past five years have resulted in
proposed penalties of more than $9.3 million.
“Dollar Tree Stores have a history of not taking the safety of its workers and
customers seriously,” said OSHA Area Director Danelle Jindra in Tampa, Florida.
“Until appropriate precautions are taken to protect their employees from these
well-known and frequent hazards, OSHA will continue to hold them accountable.”
The company has 15 business days from receipt of its citations and penalties to
comply, request an informal conference with OSHA’s area director, or contest the
findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review
Commission.
ehstoday.com
Compliance Officers Play Growing Role in Corporate Sustainability Efforts
Dell, Western Union and other companies are showcasing the work of their
compliance departments to attract ESG-focused investors
Companies looking to show investors their commitment to sustainability are
relying more on the work of their chief compliance officers.
The role played by compliance in ensuring that employees act ethically has a
natural place in corporate efforts to attract sustainability-minded investors,
these companies say.
Some compliance executives also have been tapped to help manage social or
environmental goals that go well beyond their role’s traditional remit, as
companies look to put muscle behind the pledges they make on such issues and
address legal risks that can be involved.
“A compliance officer is viewed as a leader in ethics, in good corporate
practices,” said Taylor Pullins, a former sustainability director for
Houston-based oil-and-gas producer Noble Energy Inc. “Right there, they have a
role in disclosing internally to employees and to the market about why they are
a responsible corporation.”
With many companies now setting broader environmental, social and governance
goals, compliance officers have taken on a bigger role. Corporate governance
experts expect that involvement to continue, in part due to the legal risks
associated with such commitments.
Some compliance officers and corporate governance experts think there is room
for compliance to take on an even greater role in ESG as the function’s
responsibility for managing nonfinancial risks of all kinds grows.
wsj.com
'The therapist at CVS will see you now'
CVS HealthHUBs To Pilot Behavioral Health Services In 34 Locations
CVS Health is preparing to launch a behavioral health pilot program in 34
HealthHUB locations in four states. The pilot launched at 17 HealthHUB locations
in three states: Florida (six locations), Pennsylvania (four locations); and
Texas (seven locations). By July 2021, 17 more pilot locations are slated to
open with six in New Jersey, one in Florida, three in Pennsylvania, and seven in
Texas.
For the pilot the HealthHUBs, which provide consumers with care concierge
services for chronic disease management and other primary and preventive care
services, are working with the CVS MinuteClinic service, which provides direct
medical services. Mental health counseling services are provided by a
MinuteClinic® licensed therapist within a CVS® HealthHUB™ location. The social
workers provide adults ages 18 and older with behavioral assessments, referrals,
on-the-spot counseling, and personalized care plans.
CVS Health is a different kind of health care company. It is a diversified
health services company with nearly 300,000 employees united around a common
purpose of helping people on their path to better health. In an increasingly
connected and digital world, it meets people wherever they are and changing
health care to meet their needs. Built on a foundation of unmatched community
presence, the CVS Health diversified model engages one in three Americans each
year. From its innovative new health care management services at HealthHUB
locations, to transformative programs that help manage chronic conditions, CVS
Health seeks to make health care more accessible, more affordable, and simply
better.
Among other retailers, Walmart operates about 20 Walmart Health in-store clinics
that charge $45 for 45-minute counseling sessions. According to therapist
directory
GoodTherapy.org. CVS charges $59 for a telehealth session.
retailwire.com
openminds.com
Quarterly Results
Under Armour Q1 DTC up 54%, E-commerce sales up 69%, North America revenue up
32%, International sales up 58%, Wholesales up 35%, total revenue up 35%
Travel Centers of America (TA) Q1 fuel sales up 11.2%, nonfuel sales up 5.4%
CVS Q1 Retail/LTC Segment comp's total store up 0.4%, Pharmacy up 4.1%,
Front Store down -11.4%, Prescription volume up 1%,
total revenue up 2.3%,
CVS Q1 Pharmacy Services revenue up 3.8%, Consolidated total revenue
up 3.5%
Publix Q1 comp's up 2.4%, sales up 3.9%
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Divisional Asset Protection Director job posted for Lowe's in Mooresville, NC
The
primary purpose of this role is to maximize profitability of the company by
protecting the people and assets for their division of responsibility. The DAPD
is directly responsible for Safety, Shrink, Expenses and Liability and provides
direct leadership to field personnel in the Asset Protection, Safety & Hazmat
Department within their respective division. The Division Director will have
responsibility for ensuring that stores within their division are implementing
and executing safety programs in order to create safe store environments for
customers and employees.
sjobs.brassring.com
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Macy's workers win commission pay battle against mobile app purchases
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Macy's cannot offer the use of its Scan and Pay app for purchases from
departments where employees make commissions, and must pay back commissions on
such purchases, a labor relations arbitrator has ruled, according to a
document of the decision.
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The determination applies to three collective bargaining agreements between
Macy's and employees at stores in Boston and other New England cities, according
to the ruling, a copy of which was provided by the United Food and Commercial
Workers International Union.
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But it also should have implications for the department store's 125,000
employees and other retail workers, the UFCW said in a
press release. Macy's didn't immediately return a request for comment.
In September 2018 (shortly after the
payment app was introduced), the union filed a grievance that Macy's failure
to award commissions from purchases made through the app "is a violation of the
three collective bargaining agreements, as is the company's failure to notify
and work with the union on changes in job functions and commission pay
practices/procedures," according to the filing from the arbitrator, Tammy Brynie.
"Today's victory for Macy's workers sends a powerful message to CEOs across the
industry that companies cannot use mobile apps to force a backdoor pay cut on
workers," Perrone said.
paymentsdive.com
SecOp's Getting Better at Self-Detecting &
Dwell Times Decreasing
Attackers' Dwell Time Plummets as Ransomware Hits Continue
Faster Detection Is Good News, But More Speed Still Needed, Mandiant
Reports
"Dwell time," which refers to how long hackers hang out in an organization's
network before being discovered, has historically been a key metric for
expressing whether hack-attack victims are getting better at detecting
intruders.
The longer attackers can spend in an organization's network, the more chance
they have to jump to systems, crack passwords, find and exfiltrate valuable data
and maybe leave crypto-locking malware on systems.
The good news is that the average dwell time continues to decline, according to
FireEye's Mandiant incident response group. The bad news is that it declined,
in part, due to ransomware attackers often quickly revealing themselves when
corporate networks become crypto-locked and inaccessible.
For cases Mandiant investigated from October 2019 through September 2020 - "59%
of the security incidents … were initially detected by the organizations
themselves - an improvement of 12% from the prior year," the company says in
its
M-Trends 2021 report.
Ransomware was involved in 25% of those cases - up from 14% in the prior 12
months - and "of these ransomware intrusions, 78% had dwell times of 30 days
or fewer compared to 44% of non-ransomware intrusions," it says. At the
other end of the spectrum, 11% of all breaches lasted more than 700 days,
compared to just 1% of cases involving ransomware.
"Organizations are getting better and better at detecting threat actors in their
environment"
govinfosecurity.com
Prime Target for Cyber Criminals
Researchers Explore Active Directory Attack Vectors
Incident responders who investigate attacks targeting Active Directory
discuss methods used to gain entry, elevate privileges, and control target
systems.
Active Directory is a massive and complex attack surface that has long been a
prime target for criminals seeking valuable privileges and data. Incident
responders find the service is involved in the bulk of attacks they investigate,
underscoring major security challenges for defenders.
Active Directory has been around since Windows 2000 but has become a
priority for both attackers and defenders in recent years, he says.
"There have been other technologies which have come out, but most of the
organizations we work with still use Active Directory for their primary
identity," Khanna explains. "And of late, identity has become more important as
we go into the cloud, as we move into new services."
In their incident response investigations, Khanna and Muthiah see attackers
conduct privilege escalation to move laterally, persist in target environments,
and blend in. Backdoors and misconfigurations on Active Directory systems
provide attackers with long-term privileges. Some use Active Directory to
deploy ransomware across domainwide systems, Muthiah adds.
"So it's not just to reach the crown jewels to extract the data alone; the
attackers are also using Active Directory as a living-off-the-land technique in
order to push binaries across domainwide systems," he says.
When it comes to attack methods, intruders often have several options. Some
gain access via social engineering or phishing; some exploit vulnerabilities or
misconfigurations to access Active Directory. In one technique Khanna has
observed, the attacker can adjust the registry configuration so the password for
an Active Directory system account doesn't change every 30 days. If the password
doesn't change, and the attacker has stolen the account's password hash, that
person can access the machine with a tactic commonly known as a silver ticket
attack, he says.
darkreading.com
To Safeguard Today’s Networks, Security Must be Everywhere
A unified, self-healing security ecosystem that spans across devices, users, and
applications can minimize gaps and provide timely and coordinated preventions
across the entire attack lifecycle.
Today’s networks, and the people and things that access them, are more
distributed than ever. The ongoing explosion of network edges that spanned data
centers, wide area networks (WAN), local area networks (LAN), OT networks, and
cloud access security brokers (CASB) now also include LTE, off-net resources,
and the new home office. And many of these resources are now accessed through
the public internet.
From a security perspective, however, the net result of this massive expansion
and distribution of users and resources is that the network perimeter across the
entire infrastructure has splintered.
networkcomputing.com
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NLRB to hold hearing on alleged 'objectionable conduct' in Amazon union vote
The National Labor Relations Board will review evidence during a May 7 hearing
regarding allegations of "objectionable conduct" during the recent union
election at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama, according to an
April 26 order issued by NLRB Acting Regional Director Lisa Y. Henderson.
Amazon
prevailed in the closely watched contest ending April 9, when 1,798
out of 5,867 eligible voters casted votes against union representation at
the facility compared to 738 votes in favor of the Retail, Wholesale and
Department Store Union. But the union filed objections April 16 alleging that
Amazon said in a March email to employees that it would conduct layoffs due to
the union and that agents of the company "threatened" employees that it would
close the facility if the union were voted in, among other claims.
Evidence submitted by the union "could be grounds for overturning the
election if introduced at a hearing," Henderson wrote, but the acting
regional director also halted two of the union's objections because they are
related to a
pending unfair
labor practice charge against Amazon. Per the order, Amazon "denies
engaging in any objectionable conduct." Amazon did not immediately respond to an
HR Dive request for comment.
The outcome of the May 7 hearing could be significant for the labor and
employment world, given the high-profile nature of the Amazon election in
context of the broader push for unionization by U.S. worker advocates.
hrdive.com
How Amazon escapes liability for the riskiest products on its site
Who’s at fault when something you buy on
Amazon goes bad?
Court decided Amazon was so involved in the purchasing process that the company
meets the definition of a “seller” of products under state law, and so could be
held liable for defective third-party products on its platform. (Amazon has also
claimed protections
under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects online
platforms from user actions, but has had less success with the defense.)
If Amazon is held liable for every mishap caused by products on its third-party
Marketplace, the result could be a serious hit to Amazon’s bottom line. Already,
the company has said it may spend billions of dollars to stop the spread of
dangerous goods. Amazon is currently seeking a review of the Oberdorf decision,
and the decision has meanwhile been vacated, as cases in multiple states have
been put on hold while the situation shakes out.
“If you look at the body of law defining what a seller is, and look at Amazon in
comparison,” he says, “[it’s] hard to see why the corner deli is deemed to be a
seller for all the stuff in the store there, and the amount of control they have
for safety and the like is much less than what Amazon has.”
theverge.com
Has Online Retail’s Biggest Bully Returned?
Outraged customers of Eyeglassesdepot sound like the victims of a man who’s
already spent years in prison for terrorizing consumers.
Vitaly Borker, a 6-foot-5 immigrant from Ukraine who goes by the multiple names
of Stanley and Becky
was arrested in 2017, buyers from another site, OpticsFast, complained
that
when they tried to return their counterfeit glasses, they endured grueling
harassment from someone identified as Becky S. and would serve three and a half
years in prison
after pleading guilty to fraud and sending threatening communications as
the operator of DecorMyEyes.
Once released, he went straight back to work, running OpticsFast, prosecutors
said.
In 2017, he was arrested and imprisoned again, this time pleading guilty to
mail and wire fraud.
An array of online clues strongly suggests that Mr. Borker, who was released
from prison in November 2020, Federal Bureau of Prisons records show, is
behind Eyeglassesdepot. None of Eyeglassesdepot’s customers said they were
threatened, but at least three were doxxed — that is to say, their names,
addresses and credit card information were posted online — by an Eyeglassesdepot
representative underneath their complaints about the site.
nytimes.com
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Knoxville, TN: More than $50,000 in sports cards stolen from memorabilia shop
A suspected thief made off with tens-of-thousands of dollars worth of
merchandise from a Fountain City memorabilia shop. The owner of Eddie’s Sports
Treasures, Eddie Barkley, says a man broke through his front door and stole more
than $50,000 in unopened boxes of sports cards during the weekend. “It’s my most
hottest, valuable types of cards today. In the next couple weeks there will be
something else that’s high end like that. But as of right now, that was my cream
of the crop, so to speak.” The basketball, football and baseball cards were some
of Barkley’s most valuable ones. “I’ve got probably 200 different items on
the shelves and he took all the most expensive ones and he did it within two
minutes,” Barkley said. “One of the boxes that he took, it retails for
$3,500. And I had eight of those taken.” Barkley says he’s desperate to find out
who’s behind the alleged crime. He’s also turned over surveillance video to the
Knoxville Police Department.
wate.com
Albuquerque, NM: Local man charged in Home Depot Armed Robbery
A
warrant is out for the arrest of a man accused of pulling a gun on a Home Depot
employee last week. This isn’t the only robbery Eric Gulmace is accused of.
According to an arrest warrant, Gulmace was seen on surveillance video pointing
a gun at an employee at the Los Lunas Home Depot. He left with two large
evaporative coolers worth nearly $2,000. Police say they later connected Gulmace
to nine other robberies. They say in all of these robberies, he used the
same spray-painted black Nissan truck. Police issued an arrest warrant for the
robbery at the Home Depot. He faces multiple charges, including robbery with a
deadly weapon.
krqe.com
Northbrook, IL: Theft reported at Louis Vuitton in Northbrook
An employee of Louis Vuitton, 1500 block of Lake Cook Road, reported at 2:28
p.m. April 29 that while conducting a product inventory, numerous items were
found missing. A check of security video located a man and two women, in their
20s, removing various items from display areas then leaving the store without
paying for the items.
patch.com
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Shootings & Deaths
Update: Alabaster, AL: Jury finds Michael Powell guilty in Chevron murder,
recommends Death Penalty
An Alabaster man has been found guilty of capital murder after a jury returned
the verdict on Wednesday, April 28. Michael Anthony Powell, 48, was arrested and
charged with capital murder and robbery on Nov. 4, 2016 after shooting and
killing Chevron convenience store clerk Tracy Algar during a robbery. During the
hearing, the State of Alabama presented evidence of Powell’s prior violent
felonies, which included second degree assault and two counts of third degree
robbery.
shelbycountyreporter.com
Phoenix, AZ: Surveillance video shows Manager shot by Bystander during Shoplift
Phoenix
police have released surveillance video of an incident involving two shoplifters
who escaped from an Ace Hardware after a bystander shot at them, but missed,
hitting a store manager. It happened around 9 a.m. on Jan. 30 at the Howard's
Ace Hardware. Surveillance video shows two men backing into a parking spot in
front of the store and then walking in separately. They're in the store for a
little more than 10 minutes. From the cameras inside, you can see the men
walking out side-by-side, carrying buckets full of items. They glance at each
other and then make a break for it.
By this point, employees were catching on to what was happening and were trying
to stop it. The video shows a manager in a white shirt running outside of the
store. The two shoplifters are running towards their car, and one tries to get
into the passenger side door when a woman, who is off camera, shoots at them.
The bullet ends up hitting the manager in his leg. "Even though she's trying to
do a citizen's arrest or be a good person and helping here, under our law, you
still had to use reasonable judgement, you can't just fire a weapon," said
attorney Benjamin Taylor, who is not affiliated with this case.
Nya Reyes, 46, was booked on charges of aggravated assault and discharging a
firearm within city limits. The owner of Howard's Ace says that the manager
still has not been able to return to work. He says the bullet shattered his knee
and right now he's going to physical therapy to hopefully one day be able to
walk again. At the time Reyes was arrested, the shoplifters were still at
large.
azfamily.com
Update: Alexandria, LA: Eddie Ray Jackson sentenced for 2017 murder in
convenience store parking lot
Update: Los Angeles, CA: Suspect in the 2018 Silver Lake Trader Joe's shooting
found competent to stand trial; A pre-trial hearing for Gene Evin Atkins was set
for July 22
Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Houston, TX: 2 men rob customer at gunpoint in Burger King’s drive-thru; search
for suspects underway
The
Houston Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying the
suspects responsible for robbing a customer in a Burger King’s drive-thru.
Police said on Sunday, April 18, 2021, at 3:30 a.m., the victim had just pulled
up to a drive-thru at a restaurant in the 9000 block of Clinton. The victim told
officers two unidentified men suddenly appeared and one of them pointed a
handgun at him and demanding that he get out of his vehicle. The victim told
investigators that he put his hands up into the air and then exited the vehicle,
at which time both of the suspects got in and sped off on Clinton. Following a
high speed chase by Police, the suspect bailed out of the vehicle. Officers said
they were not able to locate the suspects after setting a perimeter at the
location.
click2houston.com
Edgewater, NJ: Hudson County Ex-Con With 42 Arrests Tasered After Fighting,
Spitting On Police
A
Hudson County ex-con with a rap sheet more than three decades long was Tasered
after he kicked, elbowed and spit on Edgewater police officers who were trying
to arrest him for a multi-store shoplifting spree, authorities said. Gregory
Calvo, 50, of Union City had just stolen hundreds of dollars worth of
merchandise from the Marshalls, Old Navy and TJ Maxx stores at Edgewater Commons
when two officers found him in the Acme Supermarket on Saturday, Police Chief
Donald Martin said.
“I’m not going to be arrested today,” Calvo announced as he “got into a
fighting stance,” the chief said Calvo is all-too familiar to police.
Since 1989, he’s been convicted more than 20 times -- and served both state
prison and county jail time – for offenses that include robbery, theft,
burglary, drug dealing, domestic violence, aggravated assault and aggravated
assault on a police officer in Bergen, Hudson, Passaic and Morris counties,
records show. Calvo was serving one of those sentences in the Hudson County Jail
when authorities said he threatened to shoot a food service worker in the head.
He refused to go quietly for what became his 42nd arrest on Saturday.
dailyvoice.com
Port Charlotte, FL: Former restaurant employee hid, broke into safe after
closing
A Punta Gorda man was arrested April 30 after deputies said he hid in the back
of a Port Charlotte restaurant and stole money after closing. Leroy McDaniel,
32, is facing charges of burglary and grand theft after investigators said he
hid in Cody’s Roadhouse in the Port Charlotte Town Center before committing the
heist on March 8, according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. McDaniel
made off with $1917.14 in cash and an unknown amount of payroll cards, deputies
said. After an investigation, McDaniel was connected to the crime by a
fingerprint left behind on burglary tools at the scene of the crime.
nbc-2.com
Mount Vernon, NY Police Officers buy shoplifting homeless man socks
instead of arresting him
The officers were called to a Dollar Tree Store in Mount Vernon for a
shoplifting report. What they found was a homeless man badly in need of socks.
Instead of arresting him, Officer Cartwright bought him $15-worth of socks. "See
what you get when you're honest. Listen, I know how important it is to have a
nice pair of socks when you're out running around and you have nothing else
going on, and listen, we'll get you taken care of," the officer said. Officer
Velez also advised the man that he can always get assistance at police
headquarters.
abc7ny.com
Wilmington, NC: Lumberton Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Hobbs Act Robberies,
Carjacking, and Kidnapping; Armed Robbery of 3 Dollar General’s, 2 C-Stores and
a Family Dollar
Brooklyn, NY: Woman attacks Brooklyn deli clerk, confronts cops with weapon and
demands to be Tased
Baltimore, MD: Shoplifter pulls knife on employee at Walmart in Nottingham
Indianapolis, IN: Rise in Armed Robberies reported since lockdown level has
eased
Oakland, CA: Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong Addresses Spike In Violent
Crime
Cedar Grove, NJ: Multi-Agency Probe Ties Quartet To 84 Home Burglaries In Eight
NJ Counties, Rockland
Legislation
Coalition of Law Enforcement and Citizens Strongly Opposes Nancy Skinner’s
“Petty Theft” Bill
We, as a coalition of citizens and law enforcement, urge our legislators and
fellow citizens to reject
Senate Bill 82 (D-Skinner), which will make all robberies (theft by force or
fear) into misdemeanor “petty theft” unless the robber uses a weapon or inflicts
great bodily injury (GBI). Under this Bill, a robber may overpower a victim with
violence and, as long as the victim suffers only “moderate injury,” no felony
robbery will result. By removing the felony consequence, this Bill will
encourage thieves to commit robberies, and discounts the physical injury,
emotional trauma and financial toll inflicted on victims.
This proposed law is deeply flawed and based on bad analysis. This Bill would,
for example, allow a robber to ambush a lone woman in a parking lot or even
using an ATM, threaten her, punch her in the face and wrestle away her purse—and
then be charged with a petty theft misdemeanor as long as he inflicts only
“moderate” injury. The author claims this change reflects laws in New York,
Oregon, Illinois, and Texas. However, none of those states allow their citizens
to be injured to accomplish a theft and then give the thief a misdemeanor.
Making robbery a misdemeanor will increase the number of robberies, particularly
by those currently committing petty thefts to support an addiction to drugs.
Misdemeanors do not deter habitual or career thieves, who will regularly steal
from merchants while being careful not to exceed $950 in value to avoid a
felony. Career thieves have testified to this:
“[Defendant] testified that stealing from stores is ‘what [he] do[es] for a
living,’ so he is … careful not to exceed the $950 felony threshold and ‘never
touch[es] anybody, because [then] it’s a robbery.’” People v. Grant (2020) 57
Cal.App.5th 323.
eastcountytoday.net
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AT&T Covington, GA –
Armed Robbery
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C-Store – Orangeburg,
SC – Robbery
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C-Store – Frenchtown
Township, MI- Armed Robbery
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C-Store – Quay County,
NM – Armed Robbery
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CVS – Berkeley, CA –
Armed Robbery
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Cellphone – Pasco, WA
– Armed Robbery
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Clothing – Sioux
Falls, SD – Robbery
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Collectables –
Knoxville, TN – Burglary
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Collectables –
Jerseyville, IL – Burglary
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Family Dollar –
Greenville, NC – Armed Robbery
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Gas Station –
Bridgewater, CT – Burglary
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Grocery – Marianna, FL
– Robbery
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Grocery – Callahan, FL
– Robbery
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Jewelry – Sacramento, CA – Robbery
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Jewelry – Watauga, TX – Robbery
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Jewelry – Maplewood, MN – Burglary
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Liquor – Baltimore, MD
– Robbery
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Metro PCS – Bellmead,
TX – Armed Robbery
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Restaurant – Houston,
TX – Armed Robbery (Burger King)
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Restaurant – White
Center, WA – Burglary
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Walmart – Baltimore,
MD - Armed Robbery
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Thrift – Englewood, CO
– Burglary
Daily Totals:
• 16 robberies
• 6 burglaries
• 0 shootings
• 0 killed |
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