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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Police Commissioner Michael Harrison has described the first-in-the-nation program as a potential “investigative tool” for police to use in the fight against violent crime in Baltimore. Privacy advocates aren’t convinced.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Texas announced that it will begin monitoring pedestrian traffic through the Brownsville Port of Entry with biometric technology. Critics say the technology has flaws and violates privacy rights.
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Judges may conduct proceedings by teleconferencing, video conferencing or other available technology "to the extent not otherwise prohibited by statutory or constitutional restrictions," according to an order.
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Vendors, public officials and civil rights advocates have been wary of using facial recognition in police body cameras because of technical limits and potential for abuse, but Wolfcom's CEO sees it as an inevitability.
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Desperate times sometimes call for new measures, but U.S. policy and experts suggest that drones will not be used in advanced operations related to COVID-19 without further testing and discussion.
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The Ontario-based conglomerate Thomson Reuters now has Pondera’s anti-fraud, waste and abuse platform in its suite of business intelligence tools, potentially giving health-care giants greater insight into bad actors.
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Researchers are in the process of developing a new tool that could identify whether or not travelers are infected with the novel coronavirus. The process would take less than a minute to complete.
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The slew of privacy and data collection scandals from the past several years have motivated state lawmakers to take action, putting forward legislation to better protect the rights of consumers.
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The novel coronavirus has tested the durability of federal, state and local governments around the country and the world. This list of resources is meant to connect leaders with useful tools to aid in response efforts.
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Broadband providers including Cox Communications, Charter-Spectrum and Viasat are now boosting speeds and waiving fees to support students and workers at home because of coronavirus closures.
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Emergency declarations have activated state price-gouging laws.
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Internet, wireless, cable, water and other companies say that they are suspending shutoffs for nonpayment during the coronavirus outbreak, with some adding extra services to help Mainers get by.
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If you have thoughts about how local governments can or should use the data that they collect about you and your fellow citizens, a task force at the University of Pittsburgh wants to hear from you.
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With an internal database of more than 3 billion images scraped from Google and social media sites, Clearview allows law enforcement agencies to upload an image and see public photos of the person.
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In New Mexico, three school districts, one university, one city, one county and one state government agency have collectively spent millions to regain control of their computer systems after ransomware attacks.
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Based in Santa Clara, Calif., Impossible Aerospace is bringing a drone response system to the market later this year, but such innovation won't come without economic risk and lessons to be learned.
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A Hennepin County, Minn., sheriff investigator’s request to obtain a criminal suspect’s encrypted messages on Facebook has sent a chill through digital privacy circles — even if most experts doubt it can be done.
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The Hamilton County, Tenn., Sheriff's Office is asking county officials to fund a $4.5 million technology agreement to safeguard data following what is being described there as a "catastrophic" loss.
