Accelerating Innovation and Digital Transformation in Local Government
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The 54 winning cities in this year’s survey are incorporating community feedback into their plans, ensuring responsible AI use, maturing their data programs and navigating challenges without sacrificing service. -
The 52 counties honored in this year's awards from the Center for Digital Government are transforming local government with cutting-edge tech while focusing on resident services.
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Winning cities in the 2024 Digital Cities Survey are not only modernizing their IT infrastructure — they're investing in digital equity programs, upgrading resident-facing services and prioritizing data security.
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The Lockport Police Department will be among the first police departments in New York to test a collaboration with mental health officials that will allow videoconferencing with police on the scene of an incident.
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Transparency advocates in Portsmouth, Va., are alarmed by a proposal to change public records law to help defend against phishing attacks. Officials say access to information is helping scammers identify targets.
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The county has plans to buy new voting machines that will produce a physical ballot for each vote cast. The move comes after Gov. Tom Wolf set a statewide goal last year to only use machines that create a paper trail.
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The June 2016 breach of the state’s voter database remains the warning sign for election system vulnerability, with national security experts now saying all 50 states had been targeted for Russian intrusion.
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The Texas city will explore how the technology can help secure identity documents to help homeless individuals access to social and health services vital to ending and preventing homelessness.
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Massachusetts’ Newcomb Hollow Beach, where a shark attack claimed the life of a bodyboarder last year, is the site of new technology that alerts lifeguards to the presence of tagged sharks.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has a plan to boost the state's electric vehicle infrastructure by adding fast-charge public stations at 23 sites along major interstates and throughout the Miami metro area.
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The ransomware attack that targeted a software vulnerability in 129 of the county’s 489 computers was largely mitigated after more than a week, county IT officials say. The FBI is investigating the incident.
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Shared e-scooter programs may seem like a green way to get around, but these small vehicles can have big environmental footprints.
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While most public safety operations in an EOC are guided by time-tested principles, digital response before, during and after a disaster is surprisingly uncharted territory.
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Alabama’s capital city has entered into a three-year agreement after a six-month pilot that saw roughly 80 garbage trucks there outfitted with the RUBICONSmartCity platform to better manage routes and maintenance.
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Plus, an audit at NYU assesses the privacy risks posed by a fast-spreading gunshot detection solution; Soofa deploys its local newsfeeds in three Boston neighborhoods; Wi-Fi 6 is coming to cities soon; and more!
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The future, as proponents see it, would involve the construction of 600-foot-tall wind turbines off the Louisiana coast, along with transmission cables that would route the electricity back to thousands of homes.
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Contention and heated debate over the police department’s use of the technology prompted removal of policy language allowing real-time scanning and outlined punishments for officers who abuse the system.
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The devices are used mostly to investigate serious crash scenes, search-and-rescue calls and high-risk search warrant executions that require SWAT presence. The agency first began using drones in Aug. 2017.
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