Justice & Public Safety
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The Osceola County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of new portable and dual band radios at a cost of $330,552 during its meeting Dec. 16, by a vote of 5-1. -
The new unit, part of the Office of Information Technology Services’ statewide strategy, will focus on New York State Police’s specific needs while preserving shared IT services like AI and information security.
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The City Council has approved a three-year, $200,000 contract to install the surveillance devices. Data collected may be used by other state and local law enforcement at city discretion, the police chief said.
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The largest fundraising round yet for the 911 call-handling platform comes on the heels of significant growth in 2020, and years of adding functions and integrations through corporate partnerships.
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After a malware attack over the holidays disrupted the computer-aided dispatch system and other parts of the sheriff's department operations, officials are refocusing on system security.
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Facial recognition, social media and location tracking give law enforcement a leg up in a monumental investigation.
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Officials balked at a one-year subscription to ShotSpotter Connect, an automated technology that would use police data-driven crime forecasting to inform decisions about where to place officers to try to deter crime.
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The Pasco County, Fla., school district has come under fire for sharing student data with law enforcement. Now the chair of the U.S. House education committee has called for an investigation into the practice.
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A proposal that would allow a privately funded company to provide the city with aerial surveillance services was adjusted at the request of Mayor Lyda Krewson, signalling a possible willingness to sign the bill.
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After laptops were stolen during a riot at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, state capitols across the nation are preparing themselves for the possibility of cyberattacks.
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While cities ranging from San Francisco to Boston have worked to ban facial recognition outright, without that technology, the FBI and Capitol Police would have had a harder job arresting the Capitol insurrectionists.
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Over the four years of the Trump presidency, social media platforms generally took a soft line in enforcing their policies against threats and misinformation, allowing most borderline speech to stand.
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With the acquisition of Incident Response Technologies, Inc., the public-safety management company adds a new module to its suite for law enforcement and several hundred new customers.
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The prototype unmanned vessel was built for the U.S. Coast Guard by MetalCraft Marine US, a Kingston, Ontario-based company that moved last summer into a Watertown, N.Y., manufacturing plant facility.
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The four-member state Board of Elections should unite as a bloc today to reject certification of a voting machine, the ExpressVote XL, that undermines the sound and practical use of paper ballots.
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Under the new policy, detectives can use the facial recognition database to help them in criminal investigations, and when they need to identify incapacitated, unconscious or dead people.
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The search for pro-Trump rioters that stormed and defaced the U.S. Capitol building last week has intensified and federal law enforcement is using every means at its disposal to investigate the incident.
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The state of Arizona, in partnership with Thomson Reuters, announced the launch of their virtual court system, which allows critical evidence to be digitized, stored and shared remotely.
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A more than seven-hour long 911 malfunction was a result of a "bad card that supports a large national fiber in Green Bay, Wis.," and not a fiber line cut, public safety officials reported Tuesday.
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A white machine sits unassumingly at the entrance to a craft beer bar in Atlanta, yet scientific studies have proved that it can do something that a bouncer never could: kill SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Federal officials have announced new rules that will allow operators of small drones to fly over people and at night, a move that is expected to turbo-boost commercial use of the flying machines.
