Justice & Public Safety
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In the two years since the state released guidance for localities interested in speed or red-light cameras, fewer than 10 percent of its municipalities have submitted and won approval of plans. -
Responder MAX will focus on marketing, communications, recruitment and other areas. First Arriving, which has worked with some 1,300 agencies, will keep involved with its "real-time information platform."
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San Jose is the latest city whose use of the cameras to snag criminal suspects, critics say, also threatens privacy and potentially runs afoul of laws barring access by out-of-state and federal agencies.
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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.
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Hackers used a malware attack to infiltrate county servers in the fall, and then held employees' personal data for ransom, ultimately costing the county $25,000 to restore access to the data, according to officials.
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After Wednesday's siege of the U.S. Capitol by a violent and seditious mob seeking to prevent the certification of the presidential election, Facebook is blocking President Trump from posting until at least Jan. 20.
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The president’s preferred social media outlet, Twitter, took action to block his posts following a deadly invasion of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump supporters Jan. 6.
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The social media company has suspended President Trump's account through the remainder of his presidential term following a deadly riot and invasion of the U.S. Capitol building yesterday.
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Officials say hackers were able to access the Department of Justice’s Microsoft Corp. Office 365 email accounts and may have also compromised the U.S. federal judiciary’s electronic filing and case management system.
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Conspiracy theories spread online are the backbone of Donald Trump's falsehoods about his loss in the U.S. election. The real world consequences of those conspiracies have now exploded.
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The apparent reach of Russian cyberattacks is hitting new levels with Washington stumbling to contain it and a post mortem look at a government hack that's turning up a much bigger intrusion.
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