{"id":389748,"date":"2023-04-19T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=389748"},"modified":"2023-04-19T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:06:07","slug":"community-briefs-april-19-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-april-19-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY BRIEFS &#8211; April 19, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MLSC closed on April 24-28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Marianas Office of Micronesian Legal Services Corp. will be closed during the week of April 24-28, 2023. We will not be answering the phone and our doors will be locked. MLSC is hosting a training conference on Saipan for all of its staff throughout Micronesia. If you need to reach us during this time, you can complete a request for assistance online here: shorturl.at\/hBFSY, or message us on Facebook, or email us at legalhelp@mlscnet.org. We will get back to you as soon as we can. The Marianas Office of MLSC will resume normal operations on Monday, May 1, 2023. <strong><em>(MLSC)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline approaching for financial disclosure filing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is to remind all Commonwealth public officials and\/or employees who are required to file a statement of financial interest for calendar year 2022 under the Government Ethics Code Act of 1992 (1 CMC \u00a78501, et seq.) that the deadline for filing a notarized statement of financial interests is Monday, May 1, 2023. Any person failing to comply with the financial disclosure requirements is subject to penalties as set forth in 1 CMC \u00a78517 through \u00a78522 and 1 CMC \u00a78571 through \u00a78576, including a $10 per day penalty for periods of delinquency.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Office of the Public Auditor at 322-6481\/2, 322-7812 (fax), or email mail@opacnmi.com. You may also visit OPA\u2019s website at www.opacnmi.com for information about filing requirements. <strong><em>(OPA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Public warned of rip currents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The public is being warned that there is a high risk of rip currents through Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the information received from the National Weather Service in Guam and compiled at the CNMI Emergency Operations Center State Warning Point, dangerous rip currents are expected in east-facing reefs of the Marianas. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.<\/p>\n<p>The public is advised to stay out of the water along east-facing reef lines. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don\u2019t swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. <strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLSC closed on April 24-28 The Marianas Office of Micronesian Legal Services Corp. will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":389749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7013],"class_list":["post-389748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-mlsc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}