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 lawsuit alleges that the police department illegally accessed real-time surveillance footage from private cameras to monitor demonstrators following the Memorial Day police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Universal Health Services (UHS), which operates hundreds of hospitals in the United States, said Monday its computer network shut down due to a security issue, marking possibly the largest cyberattack to date in the U.S.
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Firefighters moved into the new structures in Bay County, Fla., during the summer, with officials saying the low-cost, innovative and portable facilities so far have proven to be good investments.
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Digital services have made tasks like depositing checks easy to complete online. Doing the same for notoriously slow-moving court processes would improve usability for both citizens and government alike.
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Heartland Community College in Normal, Ill., is now working with outside consultants to address a security breach in its computer system that resulted in the school’s online operations and classes being shut down.
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Davenport, Iowa, is considering a measure that would give police as well as other local law enforcement a new tool for tracking stolen vehicles, as well as vehicles on the run, Amber alerts and much more.
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The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency issued a series of advisories in recent weeks aimed at warning voters about potential election problems and steps to counter foreign interference.
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The Axon cameras automatically begin recording when an officer pulls their weapon — an increasingly popular model that law enforcement leaders in St. Petersburg and Clearwater have also embraced.
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Atlanta Public Schools plans to move forward with its revised proposal to resume in-person learning this year, which is a move that is dividing the district and prompting safety concerns among others.
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The federal government has approved a waiver to allow North Carolina to operate drones out of sight from the operator during bridge inspections, according to a release from the state’s Department of Transportation.
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There is reason to be confident that the $2 trillion CARES Act included $400 million to states to help them conduct elections in the face of the pandemic. Pennsylvania, for example, received $14.2 million.
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More lapses in security and record-keeping surfaced at the warehouse where Philadelphia’s voting machines are stored, prompting city officials to pledge increased security after the theft of tech from the facility.
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Hundreds of smaller communities across the country — with limited routes into and out of town — face greater danger when confronted with emergency evacuations, according to a risk assessment study by Streetlight Data.
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The state is set to receive $3.9 million as part of a multistate lawsuit filed against Anthem following a “massive” data breach in 2014, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced Wednesday.
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The Energy Emergency Leadership Act elevates federal energy security and emergency functions to a higher level in agency leadership to reflect its importance across the agency, the government and to the nation.
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South Bend and St. Joseph County, Ind., officials are discussing the cause of temporary disabled police radios during the same time that a virtual council meeting was suspended.
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Sajed Naseem, CISO of the New Jersey court system, discusses how going remote impacted state courts, what COVID has taught him about cyber and what equity issues might arise in virtual justice proceedings.
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The city council approved a contract that will upgrade controversial facial recognition software used by police despite calls to ban the technology, which its opponents have questioned as racist.
