John MacDonald

1 month ago | city-journal.org | Anthony A. Braga |John MacDonald |David Weisburd |Hannah Meyers

Three leading criminologists—Anthony A. Braga, John M. MacDonald, and David Weisburd—discuss ideological influences on the study of policing. The panel is moderated by Manhattan Institute scholar Hannah Meyers for the 2024 George L. Kelling Lecture. Hannah E. Meyers: Welcome everyone. I’m Hannah Myers, director of Policing and Public Safety for the Manhattan Institute.

Mar 14, 2024 | jdsupra.com | John MacDonald

New York employers, are you thinking of asking applicants or employees to divulge their personal social media information? Think again. Last September, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed legislation that prohibits all employers in the state from requesting or requiring that an employee or applicant for employment disclose any user name, password, or other means for accessing a personal account or service through specified electronic communications devices. The law took effect yesterday.

Feb 14, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jordan Fischer |John MacDonald

On October 30, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a securities fraud claim in federal court in the Southern District of New York against SolarWinds Corporation as well as its Chief Information Security Officer, Timothy G. Brown. Reminiscent of the recent Uber case, in which Uber’s CISO faced jail time for data breach concealment, the SEC in SolarWinds alleges fraud, contending that the company and its CISO made misstatements and omissions in the company’s SEC filings.

Nov 13, 2023 | city-journal.org | John MacDonald

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results,” economist Milton Friedman said in 1975. And one of the main problems with contemporary criminal-justice reform efforts is their failure to pay attention to the facts of criminal offending. Three such facts should guide effective reforms.

Aug 1, 2023 | jdsupra.com | John MacDonald

A federal judge has refused to enjoin New Jersey’s new “Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights,” clearing the way for all provisions of the law to be in effect as of this Saturday, August 5. Perhaps most significantly, the Act will require that certain temporary workers be paid at least the average pay for similar work performed by the client company’s regular employees. Signed into law by Gov.