Public Safety
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The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on Monday arrested the man after he reportedly stole a vehicle from a business in east Fort Collins, set it on fire and damaged nearby agricultural land. -
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will evaluate a $13 million rental agreement for the Sheriff’s Office to obtain new radios and accompanying equipment. The previous lease dates to 2015 and expired last year.
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While the city has used drones before, Chief Roderick Porter said the two new aerial vehicles the department is getting under a contract with security tech company Flock Safety are more advanced.
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Incident commanders can track personnel and equipment in real time on the scene and improve post-incident accountability using OnSite ERT.
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Roanoke County, Va., consolidated public safety and information technology operations into one department, but putting an IT person in charge of 911 is proving to be a good match.
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The Los Angeles Police Department’s iWatch program taps the community to help fight terrorism, while a national program standardizes suspicious activity reporting.
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A look at the system-of-systems approach for communicating to the masses.
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Intelligent information sharing has improved, but there’s a long way to go.
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Growing emergency communications system serves more than 450 state, county and municipal agencies.
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Almost 900 people have joined the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Southwest border-focused social network.
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The digital transition opened new channels for public safety, but a failed FCC auction has put the future of public safety broadband in jeopardy.
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The National Governors Association’s State Homeland Security Advisors Survey highlights priorities and issues.
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Inaccurate addresses cause potentially fatal delays in emergency response, but a proposed standard could improve the situation.
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McEwen, chairman of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corp., was named one of the Government Technology’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of 2010.
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Earthquake risks in the United States include some of the same that took a deadly toll in Haiti and Chile.
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Regional Integrated Transportation Information System and Capital Wireless Information Network connected first responders after massive snowstorm.
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Communicating between six reservations is possible only by phone without access to the statewide system.
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Hospitals could firm up their response to bombing threats with course.
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U.S. telecommunications and public safety agencies partner to test and develop new 4G wireless solutions that would upgrade emergency response communications.
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Burlington County, N.J., tests military communications technology that provides interoperability among emergency management workers.
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Emergency management, public safety, homeland security and criminal justice agencies from around the world are invited to enter.
