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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Gov. Charlie Baker’s office said he’d sign a massive police reform bill after the Massachusetts Senate made a series of concessions, including regulations allowing use of facial recognition technology in limited cases.
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St. Louis County is years behind in updating police tech, addressing an internal racial divide, working with community stakeholders and collaborating with the city's police department, according to outside consultants.
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Police in Pasadena and Long Beach broke their vows to not share data with ICE. However, the departments released vehicle license plate information to the agency.
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The city has banned police from using facial recognition software and several other types of surveillance technology, requiring officers to issue summonses for a wide range of minor offenses rather than make arrests.
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License plate readers that take photos of vehicles are already a success about a third of the way into a pilot project, Wichita police say, following a partnership with Flock Safety on a free 90-day pilot project.
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The top federal cybersecurity agency has issued its most urgent warning yet about a sophisticated and extensive computer breach, saying it posed a "grave risk" to cybernetworks maintained by government.
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The plan to use aerial surveillance to track suspects after a violent crime is, once again, being floated by city leaders. Opponents have argued the program is an affront to the civil rights of average citizens.
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Officials acknowledged the city needs to ready itself for an inevitable transition to electric vehicles but remained adamant in recent weeks that the police department is not yet prepared to use and maintain them.
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The city's police department has not made its use of the AI technology public before, and a spokesperson once said it doesn't "employ" face recognition. New documents show how the agency has used it for years.
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Washington state is responding to "known security vulnerabilities" to its systems after the federal government issued warnings that software had been breached in what could have been an attack by Russian hackers.
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Santa Fe city officials are working with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University to implement a first-of-its-kind smartphone app that would let residents track when COVID-19 is impacting their social circle.
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As the city restores in-house tech systems following last week's attempted ransomware attack, Independence, Mo., officials have not said whether the attack compromised personal information for utility customers.
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The New York-based SaaS company is investing in the consolidation of software tools that address different vital functions of agency customers, hoping to replace legacy apps with a single window.
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Kathleen O'Toole, widely known for pushing for reforms and technology in her leadership of several police departments, is taking a seat on the board of the New York-based tech vendor Mark43.
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Chatham County, N.C., is continuing to slowly rebound from a late October cyberattack that shut down most of the county’s functions and temporarily cut off public access to government services.
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Chula Vista, Calif., has stopped — for now, at least — allowing federal Border Patrol agents and other immigration agents to look at data that police collect from electronic license plate readers.
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Additional video conferencing rooms will be built at Westmoreland County Prison to allow for more court hearings to be held remotely as coronavirus infections continue to spread among inmates.
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Plus, Philadelphia launches a new used technology donation program aimed at helping to close the digital divide, a federal agency releases hospital-level facility data related to COVID, and more.
