NEWS OF THE DAY

From Across the Nation

_1 Exlawmaker released: Former Rep. Corrine Brown, once a powerful Florida Democrat, has been released from federal prison over coronavirus concerns after serving just over two years of a fiveyear sentence for fraud and other crimes related to a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund. Brown, 73, left the central Florida facility recently, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website. Court documents said she suffers from several ailments, including diabetes and high blood pressure. Brown, who represented a district that included Jacksonville, was convicted in May 2017. _2 Campus abuse: A legal team that says it represents more than 100 people who allege that they were abused by a University of Michigan sports doctor has announced the first step in filing a lawsuit. The Anderson Survivors Legal Team said it has filed notices of intent to sue the Ann Arbor school, its board and the estate of Dr. Robert Anderson, who died in 2008. The university is investigating allegations of sexual abuse by Anderson. Some campus employees were aware of accusations against Anderson before a 2018 complaint that led to a police investigation.

_3 Gun control: The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a California law requiring background checks for people buying ammunition, reversing a San Diego judge’s decision to stop the checks that he said violated the right to bear arms. The appeals court on Friday granted the state attorney general’s request to stay the judge’s order. The law requires Californians to pass an instore background check before buying ammunition, which involves running buyers’ names through a California Department of Justice database that tracks legal purchases of guns. Gun rights activists complained the law unfairly limited legal purchases of ammunition. _4 Surveillance: A federal judge has cleared a test program by the Baltimore Police Department to surveil the city for six months using cameras attached to airplanes. The judge ruled against activists who asked him to bar the program, arguing it violates privacy rights and results in warrantless searches. The department now expects the first flight to take place next week. Under the program, up to three planes equipped with cameras will gather images of the city at a rate of one per second to help police investigate killings, nonfatal shootings, armed robberies and carjackings. Weather permitting, the aircraft will fly at least 40 hours a week and cover about 90% of the city.

_5 Police shoot

ing: A judge has dismissed the city of St. Louis from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a police officer who was fatally shot by another officer during a Russian roulettestyle game. Katlyn Alix died in January after she was shot by Nathaniel Hendren while she was off duty and Hendren was supposed to be working. U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark ruled that although Hendren was on duty, the shooting was “of a distinctively personal nature.” Hendren, 30, is serving seven years after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter.