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The city now requires electronic requests be made via its online portal, mandates a deposit for large requests and has updated its fees. The moves are intended to smooth the process and recoup actual costs.
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Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who took office in January, wants more public safety tools to protect stops and stations, and a better user experience. She has ordered officials to come up with a plan.
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During an all-day digital inclusion summit hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, speakers highlighted the sharp divide between those in the region with high-speed Internet access and those going without.
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The working group will investigate the rapidly developing area of distributed ledger technology thought to have considerable potential for both the public and private sectors.
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New Jersey state lawmakers’ concerns about privacy delayed compliance with the 2005 law, but they have plans to introduce the IDs in the next two months through a gradual agency-by-agency rollout.
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced the Arkansas Rural Connect program to help communities with at least 500 residents receive funding for broadband infrastructure to provide residents with high-speed Internet access.
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Accurate broadband maps would help under areas get internet access, and they could also be used to hold telecom companies T-Mobile and Sprint accountable for their pledge to build out 5G nationally.
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Measures to expand broadband access in rural America generally are popular — but where to start can confuse lawmakers, due to what some say are antiquated data reporting practices for Internet service providers.
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The SAFE Act, which gave legal legs to tracking ammunition sales in real time, has been grappling with the implementation of a database for several years. State IT staff are looking to other states for direction.
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Gun safety advocates have long imagined a world where only authorized users could fire a pistol or rifle, but firearm companies have not pursued the technology — fearing blanket bans on dumb guns.
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Transparency advocates in Portsmouth, Va., are alarmed by a proposal to change public records law to help defend against phishing attacks. Officials say access to information is helping scammers identify targets.
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State and federal privacy laws have the potential to put those accused of crimes at an even greater disadvantage in an already unbalanced legal system by limiting defendants’ access to key evidence.
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Consolidating and modernizing the state’s IT infrastructure will cost money, says Chief Information Technology Officer Lee Allen, but it is a necessary investment after years of deferrals and course corrections.
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The existence of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ long-running facial recognition database was no secret, but recent scrutiny around how it was being accessed by federal law enforcement agencies has raised new questions.
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Contention and heated debate over the police department’s use of the technology prompted removal of policy language allowing real-time scanning and outlined punishments for officers who abuse the system.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed four pieces of gun control legislation this week, one of which focused on limiting undetectable plastic firearms made with 3D printing technology. Critics say federal rules are already in place.
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Two state legislators will host a listening session to discuss accessibility of high-speed Internet in rural communities. They will be joined by representatives from private-sector wireless providers.
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The city will be the third in the last year to welcome the on-demand transportation to local streets. Lime will likely dispatch its scooters sometime before the University of Central Oklahoma fall semester begins Aug. 20.
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There's no way an independent assessor will be able to actually monitor how Facebook might violate or abuse users' privacy in key ways.
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While the private sector has struggled with unethical uses of data, government can learn from these mistakes and craft best practices by creating a data framework that is both principled and innovative.
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