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The city recently launched its Kensington Dashboard, which offers a comprehensive picture of the area through data, to inform residents and stakeholders about progress toward resolving its challenges. -
A new type of artificial intelligence is helping city governments spot problems like potholes faster and with more accuracy than ever before, but government must maintain traditional privacy standards.
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Northlake, located in North Texas, turned to Envisio dashboard technology to help manage capital planning. One of the town’s officials and an Envisio executive talk about the deployment and the future of dashboards.
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Plus, a tracker follows the progress being made with affordable housing in Atlanta, a New York City plan takes aim at the digital divide, Missouri lawmakers consider a bill that would add a CDO, and more.
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A network designed to transmit voter data to state officials during elections had to be shut down during a recent special primary because it was causing significant delays at polling sites, officials said this week.
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The position within the Office of Information Technology, which focuses on product management, business architecture and communications, has been vacant since the state's last strategy officer stepped down in 2016.
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Officials should ban the city’s use of facial recognition technology of the kind the Chicago Police Department utilizes on the grounds that it’s racially biased and an invasion of residents’ privacy, critics say.
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California’s Department of Justice has been working to fix CalGang for two years to prevent questionable gang identifications. But some are worried that the overdue overhaul is now in jeopardy.
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With new privacy rules clarifying what data companies can share, Google is limiting access to tools that track ad spending. The company is also limiting sharing its information with third-party advertising companies.
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A number of bills have been introduced that seek to transform the relationship between the state's consumers, data brokers and large tech companies, but lawmakers don't necessarily agree on the legislative fine print.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom named Joy Bonaguro and Krista Canellakis as chief data officer and deputy secretary of general services for GovOps, respectively. He also reappointed Julie Lee to the GovOps undersecretary position.
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Illinois is quickly approaching a fully functional and modern enterprise resource planning system optimizing financial data and HR processes. As of Jan. 1, the system can accurately track 90 percent of the state budget.
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The Allegheny County, Pa., Civil Courts public website has exposed documents related to federal tax liens filed between 1997 and 2010 that contain hundreds of unredacted social security numbers.
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A computer program called BriefCam that uses algorithms to pinpoint specific objects in video footage is being deployed by police in St. Paul, Minn. The police plan to use this technology only for major cases.
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The 2020 U.S. Transportation Climate Impact Index by StreetLight Data ranked the top 100 metro regions around key transportation metrics and for their contribution to greenhouse gases.
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Vexcel, which has recently started selling high-resolution aerial imagery to governments on demand, has now scooped up part of another company in an effort to improve the data it provides to customers.
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From technology to methodology, the way volunteers go about counting homeless populations in different areas of Washington state varies widely. Here's an inside look at the process in three counties.
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The first state CDO, Andrew Laing, left his station for the private sector in September. Kristin McClure, a data scientist with about 20 years of experience, recently filled this increasingly critical position.
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The city of Venice, Fla., is now opening its Geographic Information System data hub, which is still in the process of being built, up to the public, making it accessible through links on the city website.
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Plus, San Jose, Calif., reports strong results from text messaging app aimed at finding nontraditional housing residents for Census; Tennessee grant seeks to reward local gov Census projects; and more.
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State officials this week showed off some of the new high-tech wizardry that’s making it easier to drive in metro Atlanta traffic — and they announced that more of that technology is on the way.
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