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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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.
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The platform will offer courts the ability to bring together different functions such as mobile jury check-in, digital document access and online subscriptions to case files into a single portal.
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Restoring remote access to North Dakota court documents is still a work in progress months after the state's Supreme Court suspended the new capability in part due to concerns about the private nature of the info.
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In the February lawsuit, the state of New Mexico alleged Google was using free Chromebook computers to scoop up federally protected personal data, but it has now been dismissed by a federal judge.
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The firm handling IT services for Potter County, Texas, said that it is continually executing efforts to bolster cybersecurity as it relates to the electoral process in advance of the coming vote.
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Due to the thousands of crashes in highway work zones, the Ohio Department of Transportation will work with the Ohio State Highway Patrol to put helicopters over those zones to watch for careless drivers.
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Law enforcement agencies in Colorado have quietly expanded their use of facial recognition software through the DMV and other programs. The state has currently no laws regulating the use of facial recognition.
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Correctional-grade tablet computers at Lackawanna County Prison are both generating revenue and incentivizing good behavior among the inmates who are using the technology, Warden Tim Betti said.
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