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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With the launch of police training in video surveillance rules and an effort to identify security cameras held by neighborhood groups, a long-shelved privacy ordinance is finally seeing daylight.
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Increasingly more police departments are having their officers record interactions, but the technology varies, as does the quality of the footage, how it is gathered, how long it is stored and how it is released.
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Risk communication must be understood and believed and it has to be confirmed.
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Officials looking to to ensure the security of guardsmen after deadly shooting in Chattanooga.
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A lack of knowledge and indifference hampers disaster recovery. Why we keep repeating mistakes.
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County officials said they hope to cover most or all of that local expense with funding from federal flood response money.
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An experiment helps responders integrate social media into disaster response.
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Get rural and urban areas on the same page before a disaster strikes.
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409 people who called 911 within an hour got a busy signal.
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Transforming what had been the yards of hundreds of flood-ruined homes into ball fields.
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The goal is preventing any more damage from flooding, something that happens every time there is substantial rainfall.
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The Community Resilience Platform (CRP) is the first daily-use, customizable, white label preparedness, planning, response and recovery platform developed for communities to build their own regional and local resilience platforms.
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A space in the Greenbrier County, W.Va., truck contains chargers filled with handheld radio units, ready to grab and go.
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Many of those who fled their vehicles panicked, unsure of where to find safety.
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It's critical for the community to have leaders already established who could direct response efforts, he says.
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The U.S. Department of Defense has also been involved, as the goggles can be used on the battlefield for soldiers with head trauma.
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The partnership between the National Fusion Center Association and cybersecurity firm FireEye means that fusion centers nationwide will gain threat landscape visibility on a global scale, as well as in their individual states or regions.
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Incident will be treated as a terrorist incident until proven it is not.
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