Public Safety
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Iowa City and Johnson County are taking part in a pilot program that will aim to develop a protocol that will serve as another response to 911 or other crisis line calls typically handled by local law enforcement. -
The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week.
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By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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Law enforcement must consider examine the total cost of ownership for body-worn cameras, including video storage.
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After back-to-back years of catastrophic forest fires, some state lawmakers want that to change.
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FEMA urges preparedness and offers tips to be ready when it counts.
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Law enforcement hopes pooling information will lead to tainted supplies.
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Local radio amateur group volunteers can help maintain communications until the normal operations resume.
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Discussions of blood donations and other questions swirling around Zika took on new urgency when the World Health Organization declared the virus and its complications a public health emergency.
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The LiveSafe app is available for download on both the Apple and Android platforms and puts various services at the fingertips of users,
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Nextdoor approached Austin police about participating in the pilot program, making the Police Department the first agency in the U.S. to use Nextdoor to poll users.
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The effects will be hotter, drier and more extreme weather that will spark massive insect outbreaks, tree and plant die-offs, bigger and more costly wildfires.
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Amid an already rainier-than-usual winter, heavy rains last week triggered the controversial "back pumping" of water from South Florida's vast farming region.
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The United Nations health agency made the decision after convening an panel of experts in Geneva amid reports from Brazil linking the virus to microcephaly, a birth defect of the brain in which babies are born with abnormally small heads.
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As tens of thousands of Super Bowl 50 fans descend on the Bay Area this week, anyone needing urgent medical attention should brace themselves for even more crowded emergency rooms.
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Concern over the virus has been escalating as the cases, spreading rapidly through Latin America and the Caribbean, have made their way to the U.S.
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'There's this view out there that we messed up. We didn't. We did the right thing.'
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The city's police department is partnering with St. Louis Accident Reconstruction to use its surveying equipment as an economical way to provide digital records of shooting scenes. Their devices and precise measurements let detectives create electronic three-dimensional models.
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Law enforcement agencies nationwide seek answers to mounting video storage issues.
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Even though every cop will likely wear a recording device in the not-too-distant future, a new report reveals there's little consensus about how to use them.
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