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Julia Edinger is a senior staff writer for Government Technology. She has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Toledo and has since worked in publishing and media. She's currently located in Ohio.

Tuscaloosa police officers responded about 10:30 a.m. to University Mall after staff received an email bomb threat that was later determined to be a hoax.

When Keizer, Ore., was hit by ransomware in 2020, part of the data that was encrypted was police electronic evidence. The city is beefing up its defenses to help stop the same thing from happening again.

The city of Huber Heights, Ohio, is still in a state of emergency nearly two months after a cyber attack took down multiple government systems and functions. All city services are functional, though additional work is still underway.

This new AI Elections Initiative, launched this week by the Aspen Institute's Aspen Digital program, seeks to strengthen U.S. election resilience against the evolving risks posed by generative AI tools.

The university has put a new Digital Accessibility Policy in place to make digital resources more accessible to students with visual, auditory, cognitive and motor-control disabilities.

As the world gets hotter, technology offers governments a fresh way to track emissions and the progress of officials in meeting climate goals. What benefits do these dashboards offer, and how are cities using them?

Answer: Google.

Assemblymember Damon Connolly, of San Rafael, has proposed a state law that would ban individuals under 16 years old from riding class 2 electric bicycles. The state prohibits minors from riding the speedier class 3 e-bikes.

The upgrade makes it easier for residents and tourists to pay for transit service in the region. The new payment system now works with major credit cards, freeing them from downloading an app or buying a paper ticket.

Hoping to expedite undersea data collection from coral reefs to study climate change, a 14-year-old freshman at Hanford High School in Washington built a water rover with AI to collect and analyze numerical sensor data.

Gird up your loins, you will be in a race to adopt new technology.

A new internship program for high school students in Ohio proposes to give them entry-level work experience at technology companies throughout the state, which will be reimbursed for wages they pay to student interns.

The Center for Equitable Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems (CEAMLS) launched in 2022 to address problems that underlie existing AI systems, and create new technologies that avoid introducing bias.

Texas was among the most targeted locations for cyber attacks in 2023 and some of the state’s biggest companies had their user information be made available to unauthorized third parties.

As the outage persists and people say they lack firm answers on when it will end, members of a Dallas community believe this is a symptom of inequalities they’ve been fighting for some time now.

Built through a joint venture of Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., the new vehicle is poised to take on SpaceX and ferry satellites and cargo for the likes of the Pentagon, NASA and even Amazon.com Inc.

With new access to endpoint security and anti-malware tools from the cybersecurity company Sophos, Boise State's Cyberdome program is offering enterprise-level cybersecurity services led by students to rural agencies with limited resources.

Plus, the federal government is strengthening its digital accessibility rules, the California Public Utilities Commission is investing in digital literacy, and more.

Law enforcement officers spanning multiple agencies — including the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and the Perry Police Department — raced to the high school in the suburbs some 25 miles northwest of Des Moines.

Answer: A BlackBerry-style keyboard.

With the release of the 2024 GovTech 100, our January/February issue dives into the rise of private equity, what state and local government looks for in a vendor, and the hottest segments of the market.

Law enforcement officers in South Dakota recently learned that they can now connect with behavioral health professionals for personal support any time of the day or night.

The city of Tucson is trying to reclaim more than $100,000 in job-related incentives from self-driving truck developer TuSimple, after the company shut down operations at a major facility on the city's southeast side.

Daviess County Central Dispatch is putting some new technology that expands both the information dispatchers can receive and streamlines the center's ability to respond to the public.