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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Information portal provides federated search and automated audit capabilities, allowing law enforcement agencies to search disparate databases simultaneously.
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Business continuity software installed in a dispatch center prevents downtime when a summer lightning storm strikes.
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Public officials, and mayors especially, can learn what not to do during a snowstorm by examining the past.
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Procedures and a technology platform under development in Davie, Fla., aim to increase information sharing and improve accuracy of damage and debris records.
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NIST data can be fed into safety assessments and evacuation models to ensure that building evacuation routes are viable and effective.
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State agencies look to collaboration to build an interoperable communications network within the next 10 years.
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The Marshfield, Mass., Police Department has deployed more than a dozen video cameras in high-risk public buildings to secure town infrastructure.
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Police to get higher priority for mobile communications traffic.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Stockpile in Motion Across the Nation training program aids public health preparedness.
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Radio frequency could replace most conventional geolocation technologies.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report gives a state-by-state view of public health preparedness.
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Ramsey County Sheriff's Office lets public view real-time footage from 10 surveillance cameras to help prevent crime.
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Facebook and Twitter bolster new local shared emergency information network that will enable municipalities to deliver instant alerts to citizens.
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More dramatic threats to the homeland exist, but they’re harder to execute than arson.
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Public safety technology aims to save lives and protect property by delivering warnings and safety information via text alerts to wireless phones in specified locations.
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Counterterrorism training for first responders has already resulted in mitigating a terrorist act in progress.
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The former chair of Washington Mutual Bank's Crisis Management Team imparts some of her wisdom.
