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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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While most public safety operations in an EOC are guided by time-tested principles, digital response before, during and after a disaster is surprisingly uncharted territory.
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Alabama’s capital city has entered into a three-year agreement after a six-month pilot that saw roughly 80 garbage trucks there outfitted with the RUBICONSmartCity platform to better manage routes and maintenance.
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Plus, an audit at NYU assesses the privacy risks posed by a fast-spreading gunshot detection solution; Soofa deploys its local newsfeeds in three Boston neighborhoods; Wi-Fi 6 is coming to cities soon; and more!
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The future, as proponents see it, would involve the construction of 600-foot-tall wind turbines off the Louisiana coast, along with transmission cables that would route the electricity back to thousands of homes.
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Contention and heated debate over the police department’s use of the technology prompted removal of policy language allowing real-time scanning and outlined punishments for officers who abuse the system.
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The devices are used mostly to investigate serious crash scenes, search-and-rescue calls and high-risk search warrant executions that require SWAT presence. The agency first began using drones in Aug. 2017.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has requested an agreement that would allow the placement of communications equipment at a county-owned radio facility. Some have voiced concerns about the proposal.
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The new $45 million SMARTCenter opened at the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty, Ohio to test autonomous vehicle technologies. Planning for the facility began about five years ago.
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In a departure from data theft and ransomware attacks dominating headlines, hackers replaced the county’s homepage with a graphic of a person wearing a Guy Fawkes mask holding a protest sign.
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The computer issues that disrupted city phone lines and data financial data systems earlier this year was tied to a ransom demand for 75 Bitcoins, around $400,000 at the time of the attack, officials say.
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The company announced Wednesday the addition of Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Detroit; and Indianapolis, Ind., to its growing list of next-generation Internet-capable cities. Five other cities already have the service.
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While the budget for cybersecurity operations and frequency of attacks have remained constant, CIO Tom Case said changes to threat delivery requires staying on top of employee training and standard practices.
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One of the criticisms of the technology is that it produces false hits on people with darker skin. Police chief James Craig said steps have been taken to create checks and balances and limit misidentification.
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The city’s use of social media and other communication channels has netted it the first-ever Sharman Stein Award for Storytelling Changemakers from Results for America, the lead What Works Cities partner.
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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.
