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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Gov. Henry McMaster’s executive budget has the facility slated for the campus of USC Aiken, providing $15 million for construction of the innovative DreamPort Cybersecurity Collaborative center.
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The cyberattack on New Orleans’ computer networks will take months longer to completely fix than previously indicated, as vendor payment issues and a lack of access to email continue to hamper government functions.
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Scott Carbee has served as either deputy or interim chief information security officer of Vermont since January 2018. Late last week, CIO John Quinn elevated Carbee to permanent state CISO.
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The Cambridge City Council voted to Monday night to ban the municipal use of facial recognition technology, becoming the fourth community in the state to do so, the ACLU of Massachusetts announced.
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While thousands of computers have been cleared for use, requests for police reports filed before the Dec. 13 attack won't be fulfilled for another few days or longer, depending on the date of the report, the city said.
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A cut fiber-optic cable in Washington state is being blamed for a series of outages Friday in at least a dozen regions across the United States. The outages included 911 services.
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The police in Springfield, Mass., don’t use facial recognition software and city councilors want to keep the technology away until it gets better and someone does a better job of regulating its use.
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The lawsuit was filed after the state Department of Motor Vehicles ruled the automaker was selling cars — rather than just providing information to consumers interested in electric vehicles — out of a storefront there.
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The so-called Automated Vehicle Locator System will be hardwired into 2,900 state police vehicles. The move will allow supervisors to know if state troopers are where they're supposed to be while on patrol.
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Lambert International Airport could soon begin offering CLEAR biometric screenings, which identify passengers based on their fingerprints and irises. The service is offered at 34 airports around the country.
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Cyberattacks have recently targeted the computer system in Dunwoody, Ga., which makes that community the latest in a growing list of metro Atlanta communities that have weathered such assaults.
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As officials in Ohio continue to promote the idea of creating a centralized criminal-sentencing database for the state, stakeholders are now suggesting that new blockchain technology could be the answer.
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Plus, San Francisco creates a master housing data set; Code for America’s marijuana conviction expungement work expands to a new county within California; and a new map visualizes Census hiring needs.
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Privacy concerns halted plans to install license plate readers back in Feb. 2018, but now, city officials are thinking about installing the devices at key intersections pending a report from staff.
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Automakers in Detroit, Germany, France, China and Japan are aggressively working to monitor technology protections in private cars, trucks and SUVs connected to the global Internet.
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The city will ask for $20 million to upgrade its existing crime-fighting technology, such as the computer and records systems used by officers every day and its mobile crime scene units, as well as to implement new technology.
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The state is recommending that local governments, private businesses and individual Texans practice “good cyberhygiene” in light of increased tensions with Iran and fears the country might react online.
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The cost of repairing damages related to the cyberattack that crippled the Luzerne County, Pa., computer network in May 2019 has now topped $600,000, according to county Manager David Pedri.
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