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 Transportation Security Administration has been loaning the detectors out to transit agencies across the country who want to try them out. Critics say the technology amounts to “digital stop and frisks.”
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The Bernalillo County Commission on Tuesday upped the ante in its bid to get deputies to use cameras – both on their dashboards and their lapels – offering to put an additional $1 million toward the effort.
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A renewed effort by civil liberties advocates to enact more controls on the use of street cameras and other surveillance technology by St. Louis was launched Tuesday at an aldermanic hearing.
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On Thursday, Oct. 10, a Redlands license-plate reader’s detection of a car used in burglaries led to a chase, crash, the arrest of three suspects and recovery of stolen property, police said.
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The technology can determine in real time when someone has sent a message on social media, and to whom they sent that message, said Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina. Information about phone calls is also recorded.
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In late August, as security staff was leaving Buckingham Correctional Center, they found a small white drone sitting on the side of the road with a package that contained drugs attached to it.
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The ACLU of Maryland, specifically, has blasted the program as a Big Brother-type overreach by the government allowing a private company to collect reams of data on the lives of everyday residents.
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Police officers in the Lehigh Valley's cities are now equipped with body cams after the Bethlehem and Easton police recently unveiled the devices, joining Allentown police who have been using the tech since 2017.
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The planned power shutdown affecting up to 2 million Northern and Central California residents disrupted telecommunications service for some of the nation's largest providers and top U.S. wireless carriers.
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Connecticut State Police have recently begun using some new drone technologies to help troopers with the investigations of serious and fatal motor vehicle crashes, aiming to reduce time at scenes.
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The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is giving the police department funding to use new software for investigating child pornography, as well as other types of criminal activity online.
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Police officers in Winter Park will be joining a growing number of Central Florida law-enforcement agencies that have made the recent decision to use the recording devices while in the field.
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New tools from one of the nation’s top police-tech companies, a new body camera and a cloud-based RMS, debuted last month at several police departments in California trying to address a few 21st-century concerns.
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Springfield, Mass., Mayor Domenic J. Sarno has been a vocal supporter of the emerging technology for law enforcement purposes, even threatening to squash an ordinance aimed at restricting its use.
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CentralSquare and Genetec are integrating their public safety software together in the latest of a long string of gov tech company partnerships this year. This move is meant to improve awareness of emergency responders.
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The new communications center will help emergency dispatchers handle calls more efficiently. Prior to the new facility, all 911 calls went to the police department and a dispatcher would then reroute the caller as needed.
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Police in Decatur, Ill., are urging private citizens and local businesses to register security cameras, because if a crime is committed in view of a camera, police will be able to quickly request footage.
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With major partners like Apple, Google and Microsoft already in its corner and more than $90 million in total fundraising, the New York-based startup is poised to continue expanding its footprint in the U.S. and abroad.
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