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*** Capitol Hill Democrats introduced a sweeping bill to change policing and police culture in the United States in response to the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis law enforcement officers. The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 mostly covers tactics and workplace culture but also includes a section that would require uniformed federal law enforcement personnel to wear body cameras and would impose limits on the real-time use of facial recognition technologies on those cameras.

*** Longstanding technology problems in Florida's unemployment system infrastructure are partially to blame for the state's slow pace in distributing Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funding to the nearly 2 million residents who have applied for benefits amid the pandemic, according to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) The two are urging Labor Department Inspector General Scott Dahl to investigate. In a June 8 letter, Schumer and Wyden note that auditors have reported on "widespread, system problems" with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity's public facing benefits system.