HealthyVerify helps Goodyear with youth baseball and COVID best practices

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents HealthyVerify Certification.) By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter The city of Goodyear has turned to HealthyVerify Certification to help it navigate COVID-19 at recreation centers, parks, and public buildings with best practices that go above and beyond U.S. Centers for Disease Control health guidelines.  Now, Scottsdale-based HealthyVerify Certification (HVC) is helping Goodyear with …

Arizona farming families persist as development gobbles up land, Rose Law Group Founder Jordan Rose comments

By Kelly O’Sullivan | Independent News Media The Rayner and Gladden families’ multigenerational Southwest Valley farming operations have weathered just about everything the world has thrown at them for the better part of 100 years, from drought and pests to extreme price swings and two pandemics. But there are two modern threats that are unrelenting — development and water availability. …

Apartment owners, landlords challenge state’s moratorium on evictions; Rose Law Group litigator Olen Lenets says moratorium has ‘rational basis.’

By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter Apartment owners and other landlords are challenging Arizona’s moratorium on evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Arizona Multihousing Association, Manufactured Housing Communities of Arizona and some individual rental property owners are asking the Arizona Supreme Court to overturn the state’s eviction moratorium that protects tenants adversely impacted by COVID-19 and its …

Recreational cannabis added to Arizona General Election ballots; Rose Law Group Partner and Cannabis Department Director Adam Trenk comments

By Zulekha Pitts | AZFamily Looks like Arizona voters will see recreational marijuana on the ballot in November. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs tweeted the news Monday night. Thanks to signatures submitted by Smart and Safe Arizona, a citizens initiative to legalize cannabis for adult use in the state, recreational marijuana will be on the ballot. “After review, the petition …

HealthyVerify helps schools with ‘everchanging’ COVID-19, reopening landscape

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents HealthyVerify Certification) By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter For Rick Ogston, the CEO of Desert View Schools in Yuma, one of the biggest challenges for his charter schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has been all the changing information and approaches to curbing the virus. “Really, it has been the everchanging information about COVID. …

Gompers prepares to reopen to serve developmentally disabled population

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents HealthyVerify Certification.) By AZ Business Magazine | AZ Big Media The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every aspect of everyday life. But for those with developmental disabilities, the effects are even more profound.  Gompers, a Phoenix-based nonprofit, provides a broad spectrum of services to developmentally disabled individuals — but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many of those services …

Judge rules Arizona gyms should be given chance to reopen, Rose Law Group Attorney Jonathan Udell comments

By 12News PHOENIX – An Arizona judge ruled Tuesday that gyms should have the opportunity to reopen. Mountainside Fitness, along with EOS Fitness were plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed against Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey. READ ON: Today’s court order strikes a fine balance between ensuring the government has the tools it needs to combat a pandemic, while also ensuring a …

U.S. immigration officials spread coronavirus with detainee transfers

Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke, Reade Levinson | Reuters NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Public health specialists have for months warned the U.S. government that shuffling detainees among immigration detention centers will expose people to COVID-19 and help spread the disease. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has continued the practice, saying it is taking all necessary precautions. It turns out the health …

AESD first public district to be HealthyVerify certified

By Erin Brassey | West Valley View Avondale Elementary School District became the first public district in the state to receive the HealthyVerify certification. The district also discussed reopening plans at a governing board meeting July 7. According to the board presentation, the district plans to offer a choice of in-person or online schooling, with new health and safety protocols including …

HealthyVerify helps Gompers navigate COVID-19 for nonprofit staff, members with developmental disabilities

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents HealthyVerify Certification.) By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter Mark Jacoby, president and CEO of Gompers, said every time his nonprofit group came up with some answers on when and how to reopen its services to those with development disabilities more COVID-19 questions would arise.  “What happened was for every answer we came up …