Oct. 4 to 8 -- A representative of an organization that provides experienced prosecutors to help rural counties try environmental and worker safety cases will be one of the featured speakers during a weeklong series of presentations on farm law and policy at ºÙºÙÊÓƵ. Gale Filter, deputy executive director of the California District Attorneys Association and overseer of its Circuit Prosecutor projects, will speak at noon Monday in the Moot Court Room of King Hall. Other topics to be addressed in noon and evening presentations include animal welfare, the role of conservation easements in protecting agricultural open space, immigration law and farm labor issues, and the legal and scientific issues surrounding genetically modified foods. The event has been organized by the Agricultural Law Society at the . For more information, e-mail crispy@gmail.com.
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