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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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Last year, Palm Beach County had 2,509 distracted driving crashes, the fifth-highest in the state. One hundred thirty-four of those crashes resulted in serious injuries and three were fatal.
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Officials with the New York Department of Transportation are considering an early warning system to reduce bridge crashes. Large trucks on the Onondaga Lake Parkway have been hitting the rail crossing for decades.
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Emerging technology has the potential to radically transform the economics of housing. It could lead to an expansion of supply, making it more affordable; or it could result in the financialization of housing.
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Marketplace.city’s online portal and support team proposes to make the procurement and implementation of new technology faster and easier by allowing government to outsource the most time-consuming work.
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City council members voiced concerns about the potential for the contractor to sell or share data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that could be used to track down undocumented immigrants.
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In the past five years in the state, tech-related jobs in analytics grew 40 percent, engineering grew 18 percent and tech installation and maintenance grew 16 percent. And this double-digit growth only seems to be trending up.
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Two California bills aimed at enabling and regulating new forms of urban mobility have been put on hold at least until early next year. Like other states, it is grappling with how to address emerging mobility solutions.
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On this episode of GovTech360, a postmortem on Baltimore’s costly cybersecurity fail; a startup with a better way to find a public bathroom; and a first-person preview of GovTech’s adventures in China. -
An automated middleman is bridging transportation gaps for seniors without smartphones by connecting them with app-driven ridesharing services. The tool has gained popularity with non-driving seniors.
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The city’s Commission on Human Relations, which is drafting regulations for the new law, voted June 21 to push back implementation so the public could better understand the ordinance’s requirements.
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More than 140 cities and counties in the United States have pledged to purchase more than 2,100 electric vehicles by the end of next year, a move that lends more credibility to the alternative fuel technology.
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Officials said Google’s decision to build the data center in Mesa means that the city's Elliot Road Tech Corridor will be anchored at each end by one of the world’s largest tech companies, Apple and Google.
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There's not much in the way of hard numbers, but a solid guess based on surveys would be that a little more than half of all law enforcement agencies in the U.S. use body-worn cameras in some capacity.
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Father Bill's and MainSpring, a Brockton-based nonprofit homeless shelter, announced this week that it had been attacked by ransomware in April. Officials say they do not believe that personal information was stolen.
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The assessor’s office has been unable to update details about property that changed hands or was added and deleted from the tax rolls since the Pennsylvania county’s courthouse network was shut down May 28.
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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.
