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November 2024

3 entries from November 2024.

Nov 26

Ohio Gov. DeWine signed SB 104, requiring K-12 and college facilities be designated by birth sex and barring transgender students

On November 26, 2024, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 104, which enacted the "Protect All Students Act" requiring K-12 schools and higher-education institutions to designate multi-occupancy restrooms, locker rooms, and overnight accommodations for the exclusive use of one sex assigned at birth. The bathroom-ban language, originally a separate bill, was merged into SB 104 — nominally a bill about the College Credit Plus program — by House floor amendment. The law took effect February 25, 2025.

Nov 9

Indiana AG Rokita issued unauthorized civil investigative demands against Evansville manufacturer, Haitian refugee-support nonprofit

On November 9, 2024, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's office announced it had issued a civil investigative demand (CID) to Berry Global Group (now Amcor) in Evansville seeking extensive records on the company's employment of migrants, followed roughly three weeks later by a substantially similar CID to the Haitian Center of Evansville, a nonprofit serving Haitian immigrants and refugees. Neither CID identified a specific suspect, victim, or incident of labor trafficking.

Nov 7

Hinds County DA Jody Owens accepted at least $115,000 in cash bribes and facilitated payments to Jackson officials

Between October 2023 and May 2024, Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens orchestrated a scheme in which he accepted at least $115,000 in cash from two undercover FBI agents posing as real estate developers seeking support for a Jackson hotel project, and facilitated more than $80,000 in bribes to city officials, including $50,000 to then-Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba's reelection campaign. Owens, Lumumba, and then-Councilman Aaron Banks were federally indicted and arraigned on November 7, 2024, and all three later pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges; Owens resigned as district attorney. Sentencing for all three is set for October 15, 2026.