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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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Observations of last year’s election processes uncovered concerns about ballot privacy, emergency preparedness and inadequate signage, according to a recent Merced County Civil Grand Jury report. -
More than 2,000 residents in North Texas received letters notifying them that their personal information may have been compromised during a July cyberattack against the Cooke County Sheriff’s Office.
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Autonomous vehicle technology is primed to move into any number of use cases, and cities should begin the conversation about how they want to shape this new mobility horizon – or risk being shaped by it.
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Community colleges typically face predictable situations: Unemployment goes up, more people seek job training and affordable tuition, enrollment rises. The economy improves, unemployment goes down, and enrollment drops.
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Laptops represent a change in philosophy for the departments, with officials saying they are moving away from shared squad car computers and desktops in the office toward a laptop for each police officer.
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Electric scooters could finally hit Seattle streets, more than a year after Mayor Jenny Durkan said she was open to allowing the devices that became commonplace in cities like Portland and Austin.
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Electric scooter businesses in Vancouver, Wash., are seeing a rise in demand amid the pandemic. Zoot Scoot and Rev Rides are two local businesses giving customers the option to take to the streets on scooters.
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The five-year-old company works with more than 175 governments, covering about one-third of the U.S. population, to provide tools for responding to records requests. Its leadership says it's entering a "new chapter."
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A new report by the Transportation Research Board looks at public transit’s declining ridership trends from 2012 to 2016, due in part to housing and demographic changes, and of course Uber and Lyft.
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The Housing Authority of Pittsburgh and Comcast have announced they have partnered to provide 1,500 families living in low-income residences with a year of free high-speed Internet service.
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TeleHealth Access for Seniors is a nationwide organization that connects seniors with the necessary devices — including smartphones, tablets, iPads and laptops — to participate in health-care services via technology.
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The St. Lawrence County, N.Y., Planning Board has given site plan approval for a new proposal that is slated to convert the former Sears store in the St. Lawrence Centre mall to a data center.
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The vouchers are part of a program called Alabama Broadband Connectivity for Students, created with $100 million of federal coronavirus relief funds. The voucher will provide Internet service through Dec. 30.
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Bloomington Transit was among two public transportation systems in the state that received a $3.2 million Federal Transit Administration grant to purchase electric buses and charging stations.
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A contact tracing app that was used to track the novel coronavirus across universities in the state is being made available to the general public. Officials say this app will work alongside the existing public health app.
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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.
