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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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Such agents should have the skills to "conduct multi-faceted investigations of high-tech crimes, including cyber-based terrorism, computer intrusions, online exploitation and major cyber fraud schemes."
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Many state and local officials around the country have begun to address warming’s concrete effects, from rising seas to more extreme weather.
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Here are the editor’s picks for the top stories of 2014, which won’t end on New Year’s Day.
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A pair of large-scale safe rooms planned for the city’s parks will be able to shelter more than 1,100 people each.
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Think the Napa fault stopped moving after producing a 6.0 earthquake in August? Think again.
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The latest trends about law enforcement mobility you need to know.
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The hackers also invoked the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, urging people to keep themselves “distant from the places at that time.”
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The department is seeking an assist from the tech-savvy world of coders, software developers and hackers as it struggles with a policing conundrum for the digital age.
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A mobile communications company is outfitting the bus for continued use by New York City's Office of Emergency Management.
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All U.S. plants are adding emergency pumps, generators, battery banks, chargers, compressors and hoses off site at various locations near the plants to guard against floods and earthquakes.
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The head of the FBI said cybercrime is "exploding" apace as the influence of the Internet rises meteorically.
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A former garage turned high-tech information center will help agencies quickly notify and direct the public about emergencies at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, natural disasters or hostile acts.
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The reforms address concerns that contractors conspired to underpay flood insurance settlements to homeowners after Superstorm Sandy.
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The Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response called for new education efforts to help health-care providers be better prepared to identify new diseases.
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A proposed plan in San Francisco is similar to a successful law in Israel that added entire floors to apartment buildings while making a dent in the country’s huge seismic-retrofit backlog.
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Typhoon Hagupit is expected to make landfall Saturday.
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The communities are being honored for considering their climate vulnerabilities and taking action to build resilience.
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The exercise at Virginia’s Old Dominion University was part of a pilot project figure out how different levels of government, the public, the private sector and academia can work together to fight the effects of sea level rise and climate change.
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