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Gov. Charlie Baker has created the Cyber Incident Response Team in a Dec. 14 executive order. The group will be comprised of members from state government public safety and cybersecurity organizations.

Social services agencies can develop more effective and integrated services through a modern cloud-based case management system, but they need to establish a strong data-driven culture to truly innovate for their constituents. Read this issue brief to learn how to make data accessible, promote data-driven decision-making to staff and raise critical questions to further enhance services.

In an email to families this week, Seattle Public Schools told students to bring laptops and chargers home over winter break in case inclement weather prevents their return to school in January.

Following a spate of false alarms about active shooters, the Manchester school board has approved putting the gunfire-detection system ShotSpotter, along with Fusus technology for live video, into school buildings.

Initiated by a $1 million state grant, the STEM Tech Career Academy at Springfield Technical Community College will be one of five such programs in Massachusetts which could enroll up to 2,000 students in the coming years.

Neil Cooke, who has served as interim chief data officer since the departure of Ed Kelly in September, has been selected to fill the position on a permanent basis. He brings more than two decades of IT experience to the role.

FEMA, charged with administering $2.5 billion in financial aid for communities charred by the historic Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, is looking to hire local people to fill a number of positions.

The Dalles has agreed to disclose how much of the city’s water Google’s data centers use, abandoning a 13-month legal fight to keep the info secret, and committing to release the company’s water consumption in the future.

The New Mexico state Regulation and Licensing Department has mailed letters informing customers of a cyber breach in October that potentially exposed personal information in about 225,000 accounts.

More important to Ukrainians than assets coming in is what's going out: massive amounts of government, tax, banking and property data vulnerable to destruction and abuse should Russian invaders get their hands on it.

The first act of the new mayor.

With no end in sight to extreme weather patterns that could have implications for data centers and even cybersecurity, the time is ripe for IT leaders to plan for energy efficiency and resilience.

Houston County commissioners voted to move forward on a four-year agreement with Flock Safety. District Attorney William Kendall said the photos will only be used for active investigations and certain emergency situations.

Despite using facial recognition technology to identify criminal suspects nearly 2,000 times last year, findings from the LAPD inspector general's office show that the department has no way to track the technology’s outcomes or effectiveness.

TikTok, the popular social video platform owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has been banned on government-owned devices in several states for security concerns. The latest governors to ban it are in Michigan, Nevada and Arizona.

During a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing titled “Ensuring Solutions to Meet America’s Broadband Needs,” witnesses testified that barriers must be addressed for federal funding to see its target impact reached.

Highlights from govtech.com as they appeared in our December 2022 magazine.

Rave Mobile Safety offers such services as incident alerts and emergency preparation, and will boost Motorola’s own public safety tech offerings. Rave is used by governments, schools and other public agencies.

From staffing strategies and emerging tech to municipal spending and remote work, here's a data-driven look at the top digital cities nationwide from the Center for Digital Government's annual survey.

Answer: Way too much.

A school district in Connecticut is offering a smartphone app, Zonar MyView, to parents of elementary and middle-school students that can track their child's bus on a map and notify them when it arrives or departs.

Anticipating rising energy costs in the years ahead, the university used money from its own budget and the state department of energy to purchase charging stations for use by the general public free of charge.

After serving the commonwealth in various capacities for decades, Massachusetts CIO Curtis Wood has announced his forthcoming departure from his role as a new governor is set to take the reins.

Santa Fe, N.M.'s Alternative Response Unit was established in May 2021 by the Community Health and Safety Department in collaboration with the police department, fire department and Community Services Department.

Disparate solutions and systems prevent state and local governments from giving their constituents the Amazon-like experience that they want with public services. That's why an enterprise approach, which allows organizations to connect different components for a new technological foundation, holds so much promise for agencies. Read this new thought leadership paper for all the details on the enterprise approach and how it can revolutionize the way your agency serves residents.