Policy
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With the popularity of electric bicycles and scooters on the rise, here’s what state and local laws say about their use in Fort Worth, Colleyville, Texas Christian University and elsewhere. -
As tech titans invest billions into data centers and high-tech computer chips to fuel their AI ambitions, concerns are building over energy costs, especially in communities where data centers pop up.
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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.
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Facebook serves as a gatekeeper of the information diets of more than 200 million Americans and 2 billion users worldwide.
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Tech giants are under increasing pressure about their size and dominance, with President Donald Trump frequently criticizing them and some Democratic presidential candidates calling on them to be broken up.
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Ohio’s top elections official will ask a state budgetary panel to allow him to tap just more than $1.7 million in federal funds to monitor county boards of elections for potential cybersecurity threats.
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Commissioners have asked the public works department and the county attorney to study whether they can implement design and permitting standards that supersede state utility regulations.
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In the wake of two recent announcements about Maryland's efforts to connect rural citizens to online services, state leaders dissect the challenge of closing the urban-rural technological divide.
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While the complaints cover a wide range of city business, officials say frustration over the public email system has fueled the flames and created a toxic atmosphere at city meetings.
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A governor-appointed council reviewed opportunities for and obstacles to blockchain technology in Colorado for one year before releasing its findings outlining statutes, laws and regulations in need of modernization.
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It’s time for providers of government purchasing software to help fix the low participation of WMBEs as local governments increasingly rely on third-party software for their procurement needs.
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The city known for streetscapes that cater to automobiles over all other forms of transportation, establishing appropriate guidelines for scooters is a task that continues to vex public officials.
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If your job doesn't currently involve automation or artificial intelligence in some way, it likely will soon. Computer-based worker surveillance and performance analysis will come, too.
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If passed and signed into law, AB 5 would extend labor protections and benefits such as unemployment insurance, health-care subsidies and a guaranteed $12 an hour minimum wage to workers who qualify.
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Leaders in the town are considering a ban on the technology within government. The proposal makes it the third municipality in the state to consider limits to the rapidly advancing technology.
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The proposal, which hasn’t yet been drafted into a final bill, is a part of a 17-point violence prevention plan in response to the mass shooting in Dayton earlier this month, which left nine people dead and 27 injured.
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Supporters of high-speed Internet in Maine hope that the failure to secure a bond for service upgrades this year is a temporary setback that will be corrected when lawmakers reconvene next year.
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West Virginia officials have urged the FCC to encourage telecom companies to implement call blocking and call authentication solutions that would protect consumers from illegal robocalls and spoofing.
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Known as the six-year supplemental process, officials have routinely targeted voters who miss two years of elections to reduce potential for election fraud and need for casting provisional ballots at the polls.
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Gov. Ralph Northam has expanded the state's Framework for Addiction Analysis and Community Transformation, a data-sharing platform, to include Roanoke Valley, where opioid-related deaths have quadrupled in recent years.
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As the election board’s decision has drawn out, some state lawmakers have floated the idea of delaying the end of paperless machines and allowing them to be used in the 2020 elections after all.
