Civic Innovation
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The City Council has approved three contracts to replace its veteran accounting, payroll and human resources management software. A consulting firm will help with oversight and advisory services. -
The Marin County Digital Accelerator takes an agile approach to gov tech, moving fast to get work done. A recent project found a “single source of truth” to modernize planning and permitting.
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The Bismarck Municipal Court system handled nearly 87,000 new cases from 2020-2024 and saw a 40 percent caseload increase in 2024. Officials are examining what systems might be upgraded to handle the additional burden.
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More than 100 communities applied to join Neighborly's inaugural Community Broadband Accelerator, prompting the company to expand the cohort to 35 participants in 18 states.
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The robot moves and can direct visitors to different locations in the courthouse, answer "frequently asked questions," show court dockets and provide information about judges and referees.
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An app that helps low-income defendants make bail is in the works and so is an app that would help track the many obstacles ex-offenders face when released from prison. They sprang from a hackathon in Cleveland.
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Jason Kunesh, the city’s first design director, talks about culture change, priorities for his first year on the job and the importance of striking a balance between startup culture and the needs of government.
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Colorado's new case management system, in the middle of a multi-phase upgrade, is riddled with problems. Its latest reboot left social workers with corrupted data, missing referrals and inaccurate child welfare reports.
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Congestion and medians have increased fire trucks' response times in one part of Springfield, Ill., so high that they're about double the city's average. So the council has turned to technology to help solve the problem.
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One county elections director said he's "desperate" to replace the 14-year-old machines, which are some of the only ones in the nation not to produce a paper trail and which sometimes struggle to record votes accurately.
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Plus, U.S. Supreme Court refuses a Trump administration net neutrality request, Chicago makes Array of Things data accessible via API, civic technologists visualize voting data and STiR extends its application deadline.
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The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority this week unveiled a mobile ticketing solution, giving passengers a simple way to purchase San Francisco Bay Ferry tickets and board using their phones.
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Fort Smith, Ark., Police Department has a $1.8M budget for body cameras, which the police chief says is an "immediate need." A big chunk of the money will come from seized and forfeited property funds.
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The city has made concrete additions to a previously vague plan, such as declaring the need for new cars and a new computer-aided dispatch system. The police department has resorted to pen and paper for routine work.
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Tennesseans voted in record numbers during the midterms, but more would have voted in Memphis if there weren't long lines, glitchy voting machines, voting registration purges, and other difficulties.
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Homeland Security confirms that Russia did not interfere with the midterm elections, and officials wonder if the White House's new cyber policy — which went from defense to offense — is the reason.
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which went into effect this February, included a little-known new program called “Opportunity Zones” (OZs). According to the IRS, an OZ is “an economically-distressed community where new investments, under certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment” in order to incentivize economic development.
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The Worthington, Minn., Police Department will soon begin an officer-worn body camera program, but it’s likely at least a couple months away from going live. In the meantime, the department is asking for public comment.
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In polling places across the country Tuesday, voters and elections officials addressed a host of problems that delayed voting. What they didn't see was the kind of foreign interference many feared after 2016.
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Department of Homeland Security officials at the Washington elections command post said they had detected some “run-of-the-mill” scanning of elections systems a little past noon on Election Day.
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voters in the southern US state of Georgia on Tuesday faced malfunctioning voting machines and long lines on election day, raising concerns that state office holders are subtly trying to suppress black votes.
