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The technology that helped investigators track one of three men accused of opening fire in the French Quarter, killing one and wounding three, has also raised criticism about the actions of an Orleans Parish judge.
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High-speed Internet could come to all area addresses without a tax increase if a two-thirds majority of voters sign off. Residents attended a recent town hall meeting to learn more about the project. -
The challenge of rethinking how trains on Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway lines are signaled is being put out to the private sector. Agency officials acknowledge there are myriad challenges to overcome.
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Visitors to Springfield Public Schools will no longer be asked to sign in with pen and paper. An ID-scanning system is being rolled out to give officials better information about visitors prohibited from school grounds.
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Creation of a new Minnesota computer system for vehicle registrations and titles is on track to replace the much-maligned current one, according to a report, but some risks related to schedule and budget still remain.
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More than $15 million is being made available to help businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies cover some of the costs associated with installing electric vehicle charging stations for public use.
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The Dallas County School District is close to being ready to implement flexible instruction days if bad weather forces schools to close, with the state approving a total of 79 local education agencies for the program.
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The nature of the attack, which forced the Florida city to disconnect its entire network, is now confirmed. City officials say other details are pending as investigators look into the extent and source of the disruption.
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The city of Columbus is offering $300 in gift cards to 1,300 volunteers willing to have smart vehicle technology installed that will enable the user’s car to communicate with one another and traffic signals.
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What appears to be the first autonomous commercial freight trip across the U.S. was completed just before Thanksgiving. The trip originated in Tulare, Calif., and ended in Quakertown, Penn.
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The city has entered into a five-year partnership with Caltech, which will use an innovative new research field to collect mountains of data on earthquake activity for public safety applications.
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The city of Pascagoula was targeted by ransomware in late November. Officials say the incident was immediately contained by the city’s IT contractor and that critical systems were largely unaffected.
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The Guildford County Solution to the Opioid Problem is a multi-organization community effort to not only treat opioid overdoses and addictions, but also to get out ahead of them before those overdoses occur.
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The city’s police and fire departments have finished a multi-year project to update the public safety dispatch system. The initial cost of the overhaul was $3 million, with $2.8 million due each year for the next decade.
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The R.C. Musson and Katherine M. Musson Charitable Foundation ICS Testbed at the University of Akron, which held a grand opening Monday morning, aims to fight cybercrime through testing and training.
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At a time when Christmas online shoppers are expecting packages, Ring has become a new crime-fighting tool for the Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert police in those Arizona communities, helping them stop porch piracy.
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Each year since 2020, 38-year public employee Bill Mann has focused on an individual theme designed to protect both the public and private sectors, and this year’s features weekly cybersecurity lessons.
