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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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The Office of Cyber Command would be tasked with setting cybersecurity and practices for New York City agencies, providing security guidance, and directing response to any cyberattacks or other digital threats.
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Sharing services won’t be a cure-all, but it could help control costs, eliminate overlaps or streamline processes, officials said. One area the two are considering consolidating is technology purchasing.
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Philadelphia's mayor and staff have pushed for evidence-based decision making through their collaboration GovLaBPHL, which studies human interaction, but are they making steps to ensure unbiased data?
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The New Mexico city is taking legal action against the BYD bus company after it forced the firm to remove its electric buses from Albuquerque streets following a number of safety and battery-life concerns.
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Recent observations by Oregon public records advocate Ginger McCall reveal the difficulty citizens have in obtaining public documents due to prohibitive fees and delays in the system processing their requests.
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The city installed a 235 kilowatt-hour-sized battery that predicts when demand charges occur. The building can then draw from the stored energy in the battery, rather than the grid, thus saving money.
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When a front facial photo of a pet was analyzed during the testing process, the software picked the correct animal out of a database of 25,000 other pets 98 percent of the time.
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After years of using mobile license plate readers, Marietta, Ga., installed a fixed plate reader earlier this year. Now police have used it to locate and arrest a man wanted for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend.
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The 30 license plate readers placed throughout St. Johns County, Fla., have lowered crime rate and helped locate 81 stolen cars, 57 stolen tags, 27 convicts, and 11 missing people, according to the sheriff's office.
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Fueled by a $1 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Anchorage, Alaska, is building a lab inside an art museum for artists, designers, engineers and the community to team-up to tackle climate change.
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A coalition of local officials gathered at the Municipal League dinner to strategize about the upcoming legislative session and the need for more local control over zoning and the placement of small cell antennas.
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The Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport has struggled to provide passengers with the bandwidth they need when it comes to high-speed Internet, but a new fiber project nearby could change that.
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Authorities are considering how the technology can be leveraged to monitor large holiday crowds and traffic flow. Some have voiced privacy concerns about the department’s ongoing drone program.
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Plus, Kansas City formalizes commitment to data with departmental name change; Indiana works with Google to expand digital skills training; 18F opens up about what it’s like to work there; and more.
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Nassau and Suffolk counties ranked significantly higher than the national average when it came to the number of households subscribing to Internet services, according to the American Community Survey.
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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.
