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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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Funding for individual counties ranges from $229 in Hendry County to $524,838 for Orange County. In South Florida, Miami-Dade County was awarded $210,977, Broward got $18,500, and Palm Beach County got nothing.
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The ever-increasing laundry list of cyberattacks on local government has many city leaders on edge and making investments to better protect municipal assets. For some that means hiring new talent to gird systems.
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Thanks to wireless technology, the number of non-urgent, unintended and prank calls to 911 has skyrocketed. But dispatchers have a number of tools and strategies at their disposal to fight back.
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Citing an impending lapse in Microsoft operating system support, Information Technology Department officials told council members earlier this year that 400 new computers would be needed countywide.
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Leaders in the city of Cumberland are examining potential sites for an autonomous vehicle testing center. Although the plans are far from finalized, two sites are reportedly being considered.
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Mayor Ben Walsh said not only does the program check all the boxes for more environmentally friendly and recreational transportation in the city, it also helps to remove barriers to employment.
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A computer virus made its way into City Hall computers July 5 and continues to cause problems related to licensing services. City officials say it does not appear that any resident data was stolen in the incident.
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People banned from two public buildings in the Idaho city could soon find it more difficult to slip by staff. Officials say the move will boost security, though official regulations are not yet in place.
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As critics of next-generation technology urged supervisors to push back on the rollout of new telecommunications equipment, representatives from the industry criticized the new rules as overly restrictive.
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The sensitive personal information of nearly 15,000 patients was exposed for several hours through a malicious email opened by a Department of Health Services contractor, officials said Tuesday.
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Computers and servers in Richmond Heights City Hall were infected by malware July 1. Just a day later, systems were returned to normal thanks to backups and a rapid response from the IT team.
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The Abandoned to Vacant project, a collaboration between the city and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, uses open data to map abandoned houses and give potential buyers a sense of the surrounding neighborhood. -
In the 17th annual Digital Counties Survey, the top 58 counties nationwide stand out for their commitment to using tech to improve quality of life, shore up cybersecurity, support municipal resources and more.
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A slew of bills will go before the St. Louis County Council tonight for final approval. The pieces of legislation allocate funding for a new website, mobile app upgrade and system backups in the cloud.
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Northland Community and Technical College has been awarded a $7 million National Science Foundation grant to form the National Center for Autonomous Technologies at NCTC’s Thief River Falls campus.
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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.
