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 Federal Aviation Administration has given a small company in New York the green light to begin spraying crops with drones, and the company plans to begin offering a crop-spraying service in that state this spring.
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A Pitt task force will study algorithms used by Allegheny County, Pa., to spot possible bias. This initiative aims to ensure that historical discrimination and inequalities are not reinforced.
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It has been six weeks since Walla Walla University’s internal network and phone lines were disabled by a cyberattack, and while all central services are back online, not all systems are fully functional.
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The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office has purchased 20 new machines that they are using to incinerate drug needles in seconds, and they're called SANDD — Sharps and Needles Destruction Device.
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As states look to legal frameworks to deter the rising tide of cyberattacks against state and local governments, Maryland is seeking to criminalize the possession of the tools that make them possible.
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A controversial company is giving law enforcement agencies and a handful of private companies a new tool to aid in identifying persons of interest through publicly available photos and facial recognition technology.
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Charlton, Mass., has won a new $90,950 state grant that will be used to set up a secondary data storage facility, after malicious software hit the town government's computer network in August.
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Federal cybersecurity pros will meet in central New York with state and local election officials to discuss the threat of cyberattacks on the 2020 elections and defensive measures to protect the integrity of elections.
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With each state using different election laws under the hyper-localized American system, the election security landscape remains complicated in the first general-election year since the Russian meddling efforts.
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As with many jurisdictions across the country, the financial toll of cybercrime in Florida has jumped from $95 million in 2015 to $178 million in 2018, according to a Florida Atlantic University analysis of FBI data.
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A new undertaking by the North Central Texas Emergency Communications District is relying on drones to create 3-D models of certain areas, like schools, to enable a better response should a threat arise.
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As Attorney General William Barr calls for Apple to unlock a phone used by the suspect charged with killing sailors at a Florida Navy Base, it is important to consider the privacy implications of setting a precedent.
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Public school email and Internet remain offline in Hamden, Conn., as the town addresses a cyberthreat that officials say was likely transmitted through a link in a phishing email, which is a common cause of such issues.
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Attempted cyberattacks against the North Dakota state government grew by nearly 300 percent last year, according to Shawn Riley, the state’s chief information officer and head of the information technology department.
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Federal officials have warned election tampering and disinformation by Russia or other foreign influences could grow more sophisticated than in 2016, when hackers targeted voting systems in all 50 states.
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Three gates at the Philadelphia International Airport will embrace biometric tech with a pilot program implementing facial-recognition scanners that will cross-check a live image of a person with their government photos.
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A New Mexico state agency that regulates public utilities for the state was “hacked by an outside source,” Public Regulation Commission chief of staff Jason Montoya and the Governor’s Office said this week.
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Although the technology is in widespread use by federal, state and local governments, some lawmakers worry there is little transparency on how and why it is being used — or on security measures to protect sensitive data.
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