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As the Americans with Disabilities Act turns 35 this month, states are conducting surveys to better understand the experiences of people with disabilities as well as the size and makeup of their disability populations. -
As extreme weather like Tropical Storm Barry — which contributed to the devastating flooding in Texas — becomes more frequent, satellite data contributes to giving forecasters the most accurate info.
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First launched in March 2024, the cloud-based portal is a key part of the state’s effort to implement Proposal 1, which requires elected officials to file annual financial disclosure reports.
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The city of Asheville, N.C.’s Point in Time count data — an annual data collection that focuses on homelessness — is now available to the public with the launch of a new dashboard on the city’s website.
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Today, Buddy Dyer, mayor of Orlando, Fla., indicated that he promoted former city CIO Rosa Akhtarkhavari to the position of deputy chief financial officer back in October. The city now searches for a new CIO.
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Now that a collaborative 200-page report outlining recommendations to address gun violence in Philadelphia has been published, officials must act on the report and not allow the data they've gathered go to waste.
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The county, which is home to Las Vegas, has announced it will be working to deploy optical sensor technology in one of its popular parks as part of a pilot project to monitor occupancy and vehicle counting.
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The Curb Data Specification was developed among dozens of leaders from tech, transit, transportation, delivery and other areas to establish a set of common specifications to guide deployment and operation of digital curb management systems.
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The driverless car company — which is owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc. — operates an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco, and the question in the suit is whether public safety-related data can be a trade secret.
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Through the new U.S. Department of Justice initiative, state governments will have access to up-to-date null and aggregation tools to help make better-informed policy and budget decisions.
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Earlier this month during the omicron variant surge, Georgia’s COVID-19 dashboard didn’t have up-to-date infection data because of aging legacy infrastructure that wasn’t built to handle millions of data points.
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The Indiana Management Performance Hub has played a key role in the state’s data-driven pandemic response strategy, as well as helping the state center data in its overall approach to governing.
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After grappling with development delays, Alaska has launched a contact tracing app that lets users know in confidence when they come close to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
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In May 2020, after a special session there, the state Legislature earmarked $15 million in CARES federal relief money for tenants struggling to pay their rent because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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According to research, Washington's digital contact tracing app, WA Notify, plays a key part in COVID prevention. It gains about 2,000 users each week and utilizes Bluetooth to measure proximity between users.
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To make critical information readily available to residents so they can make informed decisions about COVID-19, San Bernardino County, Calif’s Dashboard Hub collates and visualizes data as conditions change over time.
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A new working paper by two economics professors from the University of Oregon uses data from the popular development website GitHub to examine the pandemic's effect on activity among GitHub users.
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Waze, a navigation app owned by Google, has partnered with Norfolk, Va., to pilot an app that will allow drivers to get real-time information about flooded roads. The alert system was set up Monday.
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Thousands of Ohio residents wait to see if they must pay back unemployment benefits that the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services mistakenly gave them. So far, the state has waived $72.1 million in overpayments.
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The Supreme Court has determined that police need a warrant to search that information when it’s on a mobile phone, but that protection doesn’t extend to the information when stored on a car’s systems, experts say.
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The recently released 2021 Invest in What Works State Standard of Excellence analysis highlights the way states are using data to protect residents, speed economic recovery and improve equity.
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