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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 city plans to upgrade 97 signals across the city to make traffic flow more efficient. The new signals will utilize video detection to identify building traffic and will automate signal timing as needed, officials say. -
The names and Social Security numbers of 56,000 people who used CNY Works employment services were potentially exposed in a cyberattack discovered in December 2019, officials said in letters to those affected.
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Plus, how human-centered design helped city officials in Seattle massive increase testing for COVID-19, the U.S. Senate introduces a new $100 billion broadband infrastructure bill, and more.
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As Columbus, Ohio, students look toward a school year with largely online learning, a new report shows that more than 30 percent of households in some city neighborhoods don't have broadband access.
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The Amarillo City Council has recently approved a $54,654 contract with Trinity Innovative Solutions to provide the Amarillo Police Department with 35 GETAC body-worn cameras for officers.
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A nonprofit in south Texas wants to ensure that children living in some of the poorest areas of the country have access to affordable Internet in the wake of online education becoming a necessity amid COVID-19.
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New technology platforms are helping governments access the power of data aggregation and analysis, which can tell officials what the public is thinking and how to better speak to their concerns.
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The Central California Alliance for Health announced Tuesday that a recent cybersecurity breach may have compromised the personal health information of a limited number of its members. An investigation is underway.
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The hackers struck the University of California, San Francisco on June 1 with Netwalker malware that encrypted data on some of the School of Medicine’s servers, rendering them inaccessible.
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Philadelphia is using data-matching to cut down on the number of forms that assistance program applicants have to fill out. The innovative work focuses on the end users, not the bureaucracy.
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Dallas County does not have a comprehensive, centralized, publicly available data source for its courts, making it harder to run down basic information about everything from law enforcement to evictions.
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The COVID-19 outbreak has magnified troubles rural areas face without high-speed broadband, and Somerset County, Pa., officials now plan to use half of their federal relief funding for broadband Internet initiatives.
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A retiring emergency management agency director said drones with their ability to send videos of impacted areas to operation centers and to every first responder will play a larger role in emergency management.
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On the opening day of the CoMotion conference in Miami, officials announced the launch of the CoMotion LAB MIAMI, which will focus on vetting new innovations around transportation technology across southern Florida.
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Beginning in August, jurors in western parts of the state will take part in remote grand jury proceedings through Zoom calls. Officials say the process will be tested thoroughly and rolled out slowly.
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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.
