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Southbridge, Mass., now has a way for citizens to submit crime tips anonymously and receive police notifications by downloading the free "Southbridge PD" app. Officials say crimes in progress still require a call to 911.
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Two-way communication during an emergency event is what public safety officials are advocating for with the so-called CodeRed program.
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Patrol officers will soon be able to issue citations and quickly file them with district courts from their cruisers.
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'We've made such substantial progress on consolidation of our major data centers, and we're very close to the very formal statutory consolidation. We've made an enormous amount of progress in getting the two data centers to work together'
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'We've put Florida in a position to become the first state in the nation to have a statewide seamless, fully interoperable law enforcement and first responder radio network'
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'Reforming how Delaware uses technology was one of my first orders of business as governor'
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'I've tried for 10 years now to pass an Internet portal bill. Finally got it done last year'
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'We no longer think that we can't perform at the same level or better than the private sector. We no longer think of ourselves as a small enterprise only made up of Cabinet agencies'
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'The hardest part about public-sector IT, in my view, is you have 50 very disparate business units'
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'That represents both a departmental accomplishment and the fulfillment of a presidential initiative'
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'The cost of government is not sustainable in its present form'
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Kurt Snyder, Indiana Supreme Court -- One of Government Technology's 25 'Doers Dreamers and Drivers''Getting elected officials to work together can be difficult at times, and judges are some of the most independent-minded elected officials you could have'
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''Because all of our IT is focused in a single area, the governor doesn't have to think, 'If I want to accomplish this, which IT program in which agency do I need to make that happen?'''
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'We take every dollar we can, and we pinch it and use it like it was ours'
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'I started this adventure with the naïve goal of getting 50 states and 3,300 counties and 10,000 cities to work together. Luckily I had no idea of what I was getting into'
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'There has never been a technology this fast, this expansive, with the ability to connect this many people from around the world.'
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'Government needs to get away from the idea that all state agencies and entities are separate when it comes to IT'
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New Web-based portal provides county citizens with access to property documents and information
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Techlines has been keeping an eye on some bills that feature technology
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Fully 75 million Americans -- 37 percent of the adult population and 61 percent of online Americans -- used the Internet to get political news and information, discuss candidates and debate issues in emails, or participate directly in the political process by volunteering or giving contributions to candidates, according to Pew Internet.
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Standardizes intake across all human services and creates a single database for all homeless clients
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