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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A new mobile app could give on- and off-duty law enforcement officers a 60-second head start on the next Columbine or Sandy Hook.
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Using GPS, on-board radios, computers and track-side equipment, the system is designed to automatically stop or slow a train when a collision or derailment is imminent.
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Proponents of home rule say the practice puts decisions in the hands of those most intimately familiar with a town's needs — the town itself.
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Rescue workers arrived within minutes to find all seven cars of the train off the tracks.
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The task force made plans to track the implementation actions by agencies and to work on ways to reduce the future federal outlays for future major weather events.
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Radio system allows Monterey, Calif., CERT members to report damage assessments and keep the EOC directly in contact with different neighborhoods.
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MATADRR is a two-year, $8 million DOD project designed to enable communication between applications that previously did not interact.
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MicroMappers has stood up two apps to help quickly identify information from tweets and images relevant to responders.
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An Oakland charter school will be among the first in the country to use the new technology.
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It’s easy to fall into the trap of rebuilding for today, instead of rebuilding for the next generation.
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In the last six years, eight Western states have experienced the largest or most destructive fires in their histories.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has started a program that will test the accuracy of various off-the-shelf facial recognition platforms.
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At IAEM, Rocco Casagrande discusses some dangerous ways technology could affect the future and homeland security.
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Across the country, the range of preparation for elected officials varies widely.
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Recent events suggest that the tools used by citizen journalists play an increasingly crucial role in preparedness for and emergency response to disasters.
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The online map developed by Google.org displays emergency- and disaster-affected areas of San Francisco.
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Recent TB outbreaks among the poor, homeless and immigrant populations of several U.S. communities have officials worried that the once-tamed disease will become more widespread and harder to contain.
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Jeh Johnson will be nominated by President Obama as DHS secretary, say administration officials.
