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 Duluth school district's IT department reached out to parents about a cybersecurity breach involving student accounts. Student accounts have all been disabled to prevent additional unauthorized logins.
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The security surrounding Georgia’s new voting system is code-named Project Beskar, a reference to impenetrable steel from “Star Wars.” Georgia election officials say the protections are strong enough to safeguard votes.
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Law enforcement’s call for video evidence of illegal behavior during the nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd is sparking concern about the use of facial recognition on peaceful protesters.
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The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, the city workers’ pension fund, reported a data breach affecting around 74,000 members, and the data may have included some sensitive information.
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Technology that can track whether students, and even college football fans, are feeling symptoms of COVID-19 could be a major part of the plan to reopen Alabama college campuses and stadiums this fall.
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According to the Federal Trade Commission, scammers and other bad actors are sending text messages that tell the recipient that someone with whom they have had recent contact has tested positive.
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A large drone flew over Minneapolis last week during protests about the death of George Floyd. The drone belongs to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, but it's unknown who requested the aircraft.
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Over the next several weeks and months, courts around the country must figure out how to resume operations in a way that keeps employees and visitors safe, yet also safeguards the constitutional guarantee to a jury trial.
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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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