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Crime & Homeland Security
APPROPRIATIONS:
House, Senate Pass FY 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations; Most Grant Programs Level-Funded, USMayor, August 10, 2009 Click Here
COPS Hiring Grants Would See Major Increase under House Funding Bill, USMayor, July 13, 2009 Click Here
COPS PROGRAM:
Letter in Support of Additional COPS Program Funding to the President of the United States, July 9, 2009 Click Here
GUN SAFETY:
Thune Concealed Gun Amendment Defeated in Senate; Mayors Across the Country Urged Their Senators to Vote No, USMayor, July 27, 2009 Click Here
Call Your Senators to Oppose the Thune Amendment, Action Alert from CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran, July 21, 2009 Click Here
The Nation’s Mayors Oppose Thune Amendment, Actions to Weaken Gun Safety Laws, Statement from Seattle (WA) Mayor Greg Nickels, U.S. Conference of Mayors President, July 20, 2009 Click Here
Chicago, Oak Park Gun Bans Upheld by Seventh Circuit; NRA Appeals to Supreme Court, June 2, 2009 Click Here
Local Gun Laws Tested in Federal Courts; Conference Files Brief in Chicago Case, US Mayor, May 11, 2009 Click Here
U.S. Conference of Mayors Amicus Brief Filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Seventh Circuit in Otis McDonald, et al, and National Rifle Association of America, Inc. et al, v. City of Chicago, et al, and Village of Oak Park, April 24, 2009 Click Here
NATIONAL ACTION AGENDA ON CRIME FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Philadelphia, August 5-6, 2009 Click Here
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