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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Guilford County Commissioners Voted this week to spend about $2 million for new voting machines that use hand-marked ballots instead of the current supply of touchscreen, digital terminals.
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The Alpharetta City Council voted Monday to approve a deal with Ring, which sells Internet-connected doorbell cameras, to streamline how cops can get footage they say could help them solve crimes. The vote was unanimous.
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The 79 locations for the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles won't re-open until early next week, following a weeklong closure in order to reimage computers attacked by ransomware earlier this week.
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The reports from phone and internet companies, made available Tuesday, help explain why hundreds of thousands of people lost critical communications tools during Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s October blackouts.
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While St. Paul’s police chief recently sought state funding to implement gunshot-location technology, Mayor Melvin Carter told him he hasn’t found conclusive evidence that it’s an effective way to reduce gun violence.
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Once Ring doorbell owners give law enforcement access to video captured by their cameras, police can keep the video as long as they like and share it at their discretion, a Ring executive told a U.S. senator.
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The state’s agencies have to now untangle not only what happened, but also communicate with the different offices and rank-and-file state workers about how to get back on track for citizens’ services.
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This year, the General Assembly passed HB 2178, calling for new, modern cybersecurity standards that must be met throughout the state before systems are allowed to access Virginia's election database.
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A Vermont Code for America brigade, Code for BTV, designed a Google Chrome extension to scrape data from criminal dockets found on the state's legacy court database to autofill expungement and record sealing petitions.
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Officials said Tuesday that plans call for replacement of aging computer-aided dispatch equipment and installation of a new transmission tower to provide better radio service in this area of the state.
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A former administrator in the Horry County information technology department has now signed an agreement to plead guilty to stealing more than $350,000 in computer equipment, officials said.
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Cybersecurity and other online precautions were the topic of Tuesday morning's Belmont Abbey College President's Community Roundtable, which is a quarterly informational event held at TechWorks in Belmont, N.C.
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Work on software with the potential to help operate the Dallas County jail continues to be on hold after the jurisdiction’s commissioners court failed to take up the issue at its Tuesday meeting.
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The state Executive Office of Technology and Security awarded the town the grant, which will now enable town employees to receive cybersecurity training, assessment and simulation tools as part of security preparations.
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Port Neches-Groves schools paid an undisclosed amount via bitcoin to a suspected overseas cyberattacker who encrypted millions of the district’s files and issued a four-day deadline to respond to the criminal demands.
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Portland delayed taking action Monday on a proposal to prohibit city employees from using facial recognition technology. Proponents of the ban say the technology often misidentifies women, people of color and children.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed a record $91.4 billion state budget for the next fiscal year, which is more than $400 million higher than the current year and includes spending millions to protect election systems.
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Portland delayed taking action Monday on a proposal to prohibit city employees from using facial recognition technology. Proponents of the ban say the technology often misidentifies women, people of color and children.
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