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The centers — which are being opened in Los Angeles and Pasadena — are being created to assist those who lost their home or personal property or have emergency needs caused by the wildfires.

State and local officials as well as electric utilities are grappling with how to manage explosive data center growth while keeping the lights on and complying with laws for a transition to clean power.

Following the delayed rollout of an IT project that has ballooned to nearly $10 million, Syracuse plans to spend $88,000 for an outside assessment that will include a recommendation of how to fix it.

Matthew McLamb will step in as geographic information officer for the state. Formerly assistant director of the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, he will now also serve as its executive director.

Michael Sherwood, Las Vegas’ longtime chief innovation and technology officer, left the position late last year. The city’s deputy information technology director has been elevated to acting IT director.

Maryland-based ed-tech company Floreo VR gives students with autism a low-stakes, controlled environment in which to master social, emotional and safety skills under teacher supervision.

The state recently launched an AI Innovation Hub and is in the process of creating a Cloud Center of Excellence. Other tech priorities include procurement modernization and citizen-focused digital services.

Lawmakers this session will consider whether to mandate that political campaigns disclose the use of artificial intelligence in ads to create a realistic depiction of something that never took place.

The elected representative’s official email account was breached by a bad actor and used to reach other email addresses, in an attempt to steal their personal information. The issue was resolved fairly swiftly.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a balanced state budget would spend $168 million to “standardize and streamline data collection” across state community colleges. It would also create two new entities.

The company, which sells software to local governments, has bought asset management and utility billing company Beehive Industries. The move promises to boost capabilities on the CivicPlus platform.

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Since cellphone rules went into effect at the beginning of the 2024-25 school year, some Connecticut school districts said they have seen improvements in academic achievement, attendance and discipline.

The state of New York’s inaugural Chief Customer Experience Officer Tonya Webster was appointed to shape the method, style and efficiency of government interactions. This week, the state is reporting on its progress.

In an effort to curb chronic absenteeism, school districts in Farmington, Raton, Carlsbad and Hobbs are piloting an AI tool by the software company Edia that automates student attendance tracking and notifies parents.

As users of PowerSchool, a software company hit by a cyber attack last month, some Pennsylvania school districts are notifying families that student and parent names and addresses might be among the impacted data.

Orlando officials are considering a free public network to create connectivity in a neighborhood where more than half the residents lack access to high-speed Internet.

With over 187,000 residents, Cary is working to expand services to serve its growing community, and so far, this includes some minor uses of new, emerging artificial intelligence technologies.

Emergency responders in the county are continuing to undergo a four-hour crisis intervention training course, and they say that they are learning useful techniques from the scenario-based exercises.

What were the top government technology and cybersecurity blog posts in 2024? The metrics tell us what cybersecurity and technology infrastructure topics were most popular.

Four Questions is an interview feature that appears in each issue of Government Technology Magazine. As the name implies, it sees us asking four questions of folks who work in state and local government technology.

The chief information officer for the Diamond State has been in place since 2023 and was previously its chief technology officer. Lane has been with Delaware for eight years, following a 35-year private-sector career.

School districts across the nation are reacting to word from K-12 software giant PowerSchool that its student information system has been compromised, exposing data from teachers and students.

The outgoing administration may have notched a win with its elevation of broadband as a societal necessity, but observers were critical of other aspects of its plan to expand the technology nationwide.