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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After mounting pressure from politicians and thousands of law students, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Wednesday afternoon that the Florida bar exam will shift to an online format due to rising COVID-19 cases.
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Dallas County does not have a comprehensive, centralized, publicly available data source for its courts, making it harder to run down basic information about everything from law enforcement to evictions.
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A retiring emergency management agency director said drones with their ability to send videos of impacted areas to operation centers and to every first responder will play a larger role in emergency management.
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SponsoredEmergency responders often work in remote areas far from communications infrastructure, or where it’s been destroyed or disrupted. Satellites overcome those challenges with fast, reliable, cost-effective connectivity.
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Voters in Michigan will get to decide if police need a warrant to access an individual’s electronic data and communications after the House and Senate passed a resolution to place it on the November ballot.
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Beginning in August, jurors in western parts of the state will take part in remote grand jury proceedings through Zoom calls. Officials say the process will be tested thoroughly and rolled out slowly.
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A new police surveillance plane has not slowed Baltimore’s relentless pace of homicides, with more people having been killed in the city this year than during 2019, which had the highest homicide rate on record.
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State officials don’t have a current count of how many police agencies in New Jersey use body cameras, but a survey by New Jersey Advance Media found that officers in four of the 10 most-populated towns don’t have them.
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The new facility would be employed exclusively by government agencies, with the police department as the primary user. The project spurred opposition from residents concerned about the tower opening the door to 5G.
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U.S. Sen. Ed Markey introduced a facial recognition bill this week with Rep. Ayanna Pressley, another Massachusetts Democrat; Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat; and Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat.
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Plus, Equifax’s payout for its massive 2017 breach, a look at American fears of riding in autonomous vehicles and a potential solution for sanitizing sports arenas between events post-COVID.
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A group of citizens filed a lawsuit against Vallejo for breaking state law by authorizing the purchase of a cell site simulator. The device appears as a cell tower and diverts cell signals to the simulator.
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While companies and governments are halting the use of facial recognition technology, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office is refusing to comply until official regulations are put in place.
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Specifically mentioning the killing of George Floyd, the startup hopes to use its records management software to create reports to inform police, city officials and citizens what officers are doing on a day-to-day basis.
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The Palm Beach Police Department purchased a virtual reality simulator for $300,000 to help train officers to de-escalate conflicts. The purchase comes amid national cries for drastic police reform.
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Jeffersonville, Ind., is now poised to equip the officers within the city’s police department with a set of all new high-tech body-worn cameras, pending the approval of funding by the city council.
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City officials showed off a new system that alerts only the fire and EMS stations that are being dispatched to a call, rather than blasting the call on a radio for every station and first responder on duty to hear.
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The man says he was mistakenly tagged by facial recognition tech as a suspected shoplifter in Detroit in 2018, a move that dumped him into the criminal justice system that he says was humiliating and frightening.
