{
  "id": 7844090,
  "title": "House passes bill to equip local law enforcement with scam-fighting tools",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/house-passes-bill-to-equip-local-law-enforcement-with-scam-fighting",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-16T18:28:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Record",
    "slug": "the-record",
    "url": "https://therecord.media/house-passes-bill-to-equip-local-law-enforcement-scams"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Guarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception Act (GUARD) attempts to address a common complaint from the victims of online scams like pig butchering — that such cases typically do not rise to the level of a federal investigation but local law enforcement is unequipped to properly investigate them.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}