The largest city in Kentucky recently hired a public-sector AI leader, and marked the first AI pilot for the local government. Louisville, in need of affordable housing, wants to build AI leadership.
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New technology is helping digitize the credit card account management and accounts payable processes for the small Idaho city. Doing so has saved more than 100 staff hours a month. -
CIO Shawnzia Thomas decodes why "cyber discipline" drives AI, modernization, and trust in Georgia’s 2026 tech agenda, and how cyber resilience is achievable through digital literacy and upskilling.
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Stephen Heard, now the county’s permanent CIO, is a veteran technologist whose time with the local government dates to April 2007. Prior to becoming interim CIO, he was chief technology officer for five years.
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Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Crawford to serve as insurance commissioner for a term of about one year. Her replacement as state CIO and executive director of the Department of Information Resources is developing.
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People are less worried about AI taking humans’ jobs than they once were, but introducing bots to the public-sector workplace has brought new questions around integration, ethics and management. -
As governments at all levels continue to embrace new developments in artificial intelligence, cities are using automation for everything from reducing first responder paperwork to streamlined permitting.
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Agencies report that critical IT positions remain hard to fill, but finding the right people takes more than job postings. States are expanding intern and apprentice programs to train and retain talent.
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Researchers worked with the Federal Reserve to create a predictive model that assesses hundreds of institutional characteristics to estimate the likelihood that a college might close.
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Schools in the state have until July 1, 2026, to enact their own AI usage policies. The new model AI policy is intended to assist districts, which can either adopt it or customize it to meet their needs.
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The local police department recently unveiled a new rooftop drone port at headquarters. The agency fielded approximately 10,000 drone flights in 2025 and expects about twice as many this year.
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The county executive said he has directed staff to “begin the process to pass a local law” barring collection of such data. If passed, the county would likely be in the vanguard on biometric data oversight.
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Drones can enhance emergency response, but they’re only one part of the public safety toolkit, ideally making the jobs of the officers and first responders safer and more efficient.
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QR codes must be eliminated from Georgia’s ballots by July 2026, but less than a year away from midterms, the state is still trying to figure out how to comply.
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To meet workforce demand, new programs at Point Park University in Pennsylvania this spring will include an AI in Education Endorsement and an AI Certificate, both fully online.
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Many professors cite the rising impact of AI and the speech of some prominent politicians as reasons to inoculate students against propaganda and falsehoods being mass produced and spread on social media.
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With $40 million from a private foundation and $35 million in state funding, a new initiative in Indiana will support a statewide analysis of STEM competency and new digital resources, among other things.
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The nonprofit STEM Next Opportunity Fund is working with Qualcomm Incorporated to pilot after-school and summer programming in AI literacy at schools in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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