Government

Interagency Council on Homelessness

The ABA expressed strong support last month for S. 743, a bill introduced March 28 by Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) to strengthen the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), which was established by the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987.

Cybersecurity legislation would enhance ability to share cyber threat information, ABA says

The ABA urged the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs this month to support H.R. 584, a bill passed by the House earlier this year that would foster the sharing of cyber threat information among federal, state and local agencies. Provisions in the bipartisan legislation “will increase our ability to successfully protect our nation’s cyber infrastructure,” ABA Governmental Affairs Director Thomas M. Susman wrote in a June 13 letter to the committee.

Leadership Development

Meet new ABA President Bob Carlson

Bob Carlson, a small firm lawyer in Butte, Mont., became president of the American Bar Association at the end of the ABA Annual Meeting in August. Carlson, a shareholder with Corette Black Carlson & Mickelson, P.C., has a long record of service at the ABA.

Election

Experts share ways to protect US elections from foreign interference, as threats multiply

The terrifying reality of foreign interference in the U.S. electoral system is a “war” that could threaten American democracy even if no election results are ever actually altered, according to a panel of the nation’s leading experts on data privacy and election systems on Aug. 3 at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Chicago.