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Melissa Scott was a veteran of Philadelphia IT before taking the lead as CIO in 2024. Her experience gave her insight into how the city should approach new technologies to best support staff and residents.
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The technology that detects and alerts police of gunfire is making a return in the city as part of a federal crackdown on violence. The effort also includes an increased federal law enforcement presence in the city. -
UV disinfection is a proven means of killing pathogens like the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but it's not risk-free.
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The Clearview AI application was piloted by police in the city, but most city leaders and the public had no idea it was being used. The technology has raised concerns among civil rights and privacy advocates.
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The less secure nature of home networks has exposed local, county and state governments to new risks during the COVID-19 crisis, experts say, but those risks also set the stage for new opportunities for collaboration.
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The application cycle will close Sept. 17. Applications will be reviewed until funds are exhausted. Grant funds may be used to pay for costs associated with broadband deployment to underserved areas of the state.
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Traverse City, Mich., has agreed to lend $800,000 in economic development funds to the city-owned utility to boost its plans to bring Internet with up to gigabit speeds across a bigger swath of the city.
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A coalition of community groups called on leaders to reject a proposal they fear would put thousands of streetlight cameras in the hands of the San Diego Police without proper transparency, oversight or accountability.
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During a recent CoMotion discussion, officials from companies like Uber and Wisk Aero discussed the opportunities and hurdles presented by small, electric aircrafts as a means of shuttling riders through cities.
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The new nine-camera system will be mounted on poles in some of Lemon Grove’s public parks and at a busy intersection as part of the SafeSanDiego-Lemon Grove program. Footage will be accessible to deputies in real time.
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Most Sullivan County, N.Y., residents and business owners could get to subscribe to a speedy, new countywide wireless Internet network by late 2023, if the county’s decision-makers have their way.
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In these days of COVID-19, Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar still does not allow the prisoner and the visitor in the same room. Instead, the county jail started video visitation last week.
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If one uses national headlines as a guide, it's police in cities that utilize drones and navigate all the issues involved with the technology. As such, the drone program in the small town of Linn, Wis., is a distinct case study.
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City officials began discussing body cameras for the police department in 2019, but budgeting priorities delayed the process. The national conversation about police misconduct is now speeding the $1.4 million technology spend.
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City workers in Cary, N.C., are planning to return to the office at the end of February, nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic sent them remote. However, a return to pre-COVID-19 work life may be forever in the past.
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The mayor of McAllen, Texas, recently conducted an impromptu test of the Wi-Fi system that the city began laying the physical infrastructure for last month, after a five-year effort to get it started.
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