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Starting in July, the nonprofit Pennsylvania School Safety Institute will offer classroom training and hands-on simulations to prepare educators and law enforcement to respond to physical security threats on campus.

Coding boot camps and educational programs are adapting to generative AI tools like ChatGPT, which are poised to transform several industries, by incorporating them into coursework and teaching students how to use them.

The Oakland Housing Authority plans to supply 1,117 households in the city's five largest public housing communities with free wireless Internet access by 2024, city officials said.

Leaders from Dallas’ fire rescue and police agencies say mistakes are being made and calls for service are being delayed as a result of the ransomware attack that has infiltrated the city’s systems.

Weeks after a cyber attack crippled the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department computer systems, county officials confirmed that the hackers had been paid a $1.1 million ransom.

Jed Pressgrove is the former assistant news editor for Government Technology.

Chris Van Beke is the co-founder and CEO of Vendor Registry, which provides procurement solutions for local governments and school districts. He is a serial software entrepreneur with a Masters in Finance from Duke University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers held their 2023 Midyear Conference in National Harbor, Md., this past week. Here are some top takeaways from the program and state leadership conversations.   

Dallas officials are working to restore services after the city was hit with a ransomware attack earlier this week. The attack affected multiple systems, including police, courts and 311 as well as multiple city websites.

The state’s Supreme Court this week heard a legal challenge to a controversial law enforcement technique Denver police used to identify the three teenagers accused of killing five people in a house fire three years ago.

County officials have acknowledged that they paid the cyber extortionists who uploaded malware to the Sheriff's Department's computer system. The county paid $511,852 while insurance covered the remainder.

The Consortium for School Networking's 2023-2026 strategic plan means to involve IT leaders in curriculum and other matters, shape policy and standards for AI use, and, as always, strengthen cybersecurity.

CIO Jason Clarke explains that with 80,000 registered users able to access more than 80 state applications with a single credential, Delaware is making digital government services easier and more secure for residents.

Answer: Shockingly, nothing out of the ordinary.

As enrollment declines and online options proliferate, colleges and universities are hoping gamification will help boost student participation and engagement in classroom and campus activities.

In Bloomington, Minn., officials are leveraging technology to bring the city’s community-driven strategic plan to life in a way that those who contributed to its creation can visualize and interpret.

A new concept to develop open source digital infrastructure for the public sector is the focus of a new report by the Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech. Authors advocate for a much more collaborative approach to the building process.

Seven jurisdictions have formed the North Shore IT Collaborative, hoping to overcome limited budgets and other challenges by joining together for bulk purchasing, support and info sharing.

After a ransomware attack left it without Internet service for days, a Pennsylvania school district is still conducting classes with unconnected devices and old-school papers, pencils, lectures and group activities.

Having already confirmed an unauthorized intrusion of its network, a Minnesota school district has further confirmed it was a ransomware attack, which it did not pay, and which compromised some employee data.

One of the largest school districts in Arizona has joined a lawsuit against several social media companies, alleging that their algorithms, corporate decisions and business strategies have harmed student mental health.

The World Health Organization has downgraded the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, but WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday that the virus remains a "global health threat."

Weeks after the California Air Resources Board approved an ambitious rule to limit rail pollution, the Pacific Harbor Line unveiled one of the nation’s most advanced zero-emission locomotives.

The new design is a scaled-down version of the AP1000 reactor, which has endured two decades of regulatory licensing, testing, supply chain and workforce development, construction and operation.

The Los Angeles Police Department expects to see a major improvement in its dash-cam footage with a new cloud management system and upgraded in-car cameras that allow uploading to a server from the field.