Policy
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New Mexico schools are part of a nationwide push to curb phone use in classrooms, driven by teacher concerns about disruption and growing worries about record daily screen time. -
Mississippi has announced a new AI data center build that promises tax revenue and job creation. Such gains are not always easy to quantify, but policymakers can push developers to deliver.
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Attorney General Dana Nessel is challenging state energy regulators' approval of special electricity contracts between DTE Energy Co. and the developers of a high-profile data center in Saline Township.
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Conversations about the need to improve rural broadband in the United States have been happening for many years, and as they do, towns in Kansas continue to struggle with speeds that make business and life difficult.
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After the app troubles in the Iowa caucus, many are concerned about tech potentially delaying future election results, but it’s a trend toward absentee and mail-in ballots that actually has the potential to do so.
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The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has seen significant decreases in wait times for walk-in customers with the use of a lobby management tool that provides near-real-time data that allows staff to adjust to demand.
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An unusual state law means law enforcement won’t have to tell the public whether or not they are using cutting-edge surveillance technologies. The secrecy is raising concerns among privacy advocates.
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As the Federal Communications Commission prepares $20.4 billion aimed at fixing broadband access challenges, stakeholders have voiced both optimism and concern about how the funds are being distributed.
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Data privacy regulations are being adopted to protect internet users. Today, humans need to read those rules to ensure compliance. New research suggests machines could interpret them in real time.
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New software tools could help states collect sales tax revenues on all products purchased online thanks to a Supreme Court ruling. The change will generate billions in new revenue.
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New Hampshire officials guaranteed election havoc at the Iowa caucuses, caused by technological error, will not occur in that state, where votes are cast with pencils on paper and most are counted by machines.
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Two bills in the New Mexico Legislature seek to provide funding to Diné College to start a college and career readiness program in Shiprock and provide high-speed Internet services at its John Pinto Library.
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A state district judge in Houston told Facebook on Jan. 29 that it must take down a privacy tool announced with much ballyhoo that same day and promoted with a blog post by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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At the Public Sector CIO Academy, experts from the public and private sectors provided insight into what IT leaders need to think about when considering data collection and sharing aimed at benefiting residents' lives.
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The House Homeland Security Committee will hear testimony from the National Institute of Standards and Technology regarding how the Department of Homeland Security uses the technology and its limitations.
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A network designed to transmit voter data to state officials during elections had to be shut down during a recent special primary because it was causing significant delays at polling sites, officials said this week.
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Bay City, Mich., has outlined procedures and requirements for installation of a small cell facility, fees, access to city right-of-way, use of city-owned poles, installation of new poles, location of facilities and more.
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Some states don’t collaborate with cities and counties to improve cybersecurity.
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Officials should ban the city’s use of facial recognition technology of the kind the Chicago Police Department utilizes on the grounds that it’s racially biased and an invasion of residents’ privacy, critics say.
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Officials in Nevada have cut ties with Shadow Inc., which is the software vendor at the heart of Iowa’s presidential nomination vote-counting debacle with questions swirling about whether it would work there.
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A bill that would leave it to local governments to regulate electric scooters cleared the Georgia Senate this week, addressing a set of vehicles that have overtaken Atlanta and other cities across the state.
