Justice & Public Safety
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The local police department recently unveiled a new rooftop drone port at headquarters. The agency fielded approximately 10,000 drone flights in 2025 and expects about twice as many this year. -
While the city has used drones before, Chief Roderick Porter said the two new aerial vehicles the department is getting under a contract with security tech company Flock Safety are more advanced.
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More than 200 Wisconsin law enforcement agencies use license plate reading technology. The state’s capital city, however, has so far not installed such cameras even as its neighbors have done so.
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A group protesting the governor’s stay-home orders at the state’s capitol in late April says the tool meant to observe the spread of the novel coronavirus should not have been used to track their whereabouts.
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The New London, Conn., Police Department is planning to have every officer wearing body cameras by fall following a unanimous city council vote that authorized a $1.2 million contract to buy the cams and related tech.
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The Minnesota state Senate’s servers were breached Tuesday morning, and the hackers were able to access a file of passwords used by senators and staff, Senate officials said Tuesday evening.
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Company Six’s founders are mum on details, but they say they’re making advanced technology more affordable and user-friendly, and giving officers more information to make decisions.
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The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted American’s adversarial system of justice like nothing before it, chipping away at the bedrock guarantee of American jurisprudence — the right to a trial by jury.
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Summit County, Ohio, will launch a new smartphone probation app this week, with 1,000 of the 4,000 people currently on probation using an app that monitors their whereabouts with GIS technology.
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The University of Texas at San Antonio is in talks with the Energy Department to establish a $70 million cybersecurity research institute, its mission to safeguard manufacturers who rely heavily on automation.
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While Ohio’s stay-at-home order closed non-essential businesses and kept most people indoors, the opioid epidemic did not abate. Stats show drug overdose deaths have remained fairly steady over the past three months.
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Months after Connecticut courts were reduced to handling a severely limited number of criminal cases because of the pandemic, many defense attorneys are growing increasingly frustrated over a mounting backlog.
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After more than two months of holding only the most essential arraignments and hearings, more county court systems in Ohio will reopen, with jury trials possible for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit.
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Minnesota is fending off cyberattacks aimed at crippling the state’s computer systems, officials announced without explicitly saying that the attacks are connected to attempts to foment civil unrest as law enforcement.
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Tech experts who work with county court systems have implemented a number of changes to help the justice system continue to function in the time of COVID-19, and some of those changes may become permanent.
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Rockford, Ill., city officials plan to accept a pair of grants totaling more than $1.1 million that will pay to beef up city police technology meant to combat violent crime and for coronavirus-related safety expenses.
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Taking a look at Austin's community policing effort, a city audit found that police have little time to engage with people outside of responding to crime and that the department needs better tracking of such initiatives.
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Arizona Sen. Martha McSally is leading the latest push against drones manufactured in China. Her proposal would prevent state and local agencies from using federal money to buy or operate such technology.
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Northampton County courtrooms are no stranger to video hearings and have used them for several years, but now social distancing efforts are highlighting the importance and usefulness of the technology.
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The data breach happened in December 2018 and compromised the personal information of Wichita State University students as far back as two decades. One of the victims wants to file a class action lawsuit.
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Massachusetts courthouses will remain closed until at least July 1, but judges in the state will start hearing more non-emergency cases by telephone, videoconference or a number of other virtual means.
