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 Gaston County Police Department will soon be equipped with new mobile radios and updated radio software worth over $460,000 in total after officials there voted unanimously to approve the purchase.
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More than 100 additional security cameras will soon be installed at several Luzerne County government properties now that funding has been authorized, Luzerne County Sheriff Brian Szumski said.
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The agencies’ risk profile was ranked on five factors: ability to identify information technology assets, protect them, detect attacks, and respond to and recover from attacks.
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Police officials say body cams are just another tool police can use when compiling evidence and reviewing best practices, especially with claims nationwide of police misconduct resulting in multimillion-dollar lawsuits.
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The Pullman Police Department has added a pair of new e-bikes in recent weeks for use by officers, who after a short period of using them have already described the vehicles as a “game changer.”
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The versatility and computing power of modern smartphones could render older, bulkier devices obsolete, particularly for police officers and first responders who use computers in many different environments.
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He also said more carriers have switched to more reliable fiber-optic networks, as opposed to digital subscriber line, or DSL, Internet, which uses easily damaged copper wiring.
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The indictment cites three other victims that all “rented or contracted for computer servers” from the same cloud-computing company used by Capital One: a state agency, a telecom, and a public research university.
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The University of Southern California’s new data project will show how neighborhood crime in Los Angeles intersects with other policy areas like homelessness and housing, education, economic development, and jobs.
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Leaders in the town are considering a ban on the technology within government. The proposal makes it the third municipality in the state to consider limits to the rapidly advancing technology.
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The proposal, which hasn’t yet been drafted into a final bill, is a part of a 17-point violence prevention plan in response to the mass shooting in Dayton earlier this month, which left nine people dead and 27 injured.
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The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services’ award-winning Always Stay Konnected app is continually upgraded with new user-friendly technology to help children, families and staff in the field.
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As more states legalize recreational marijuana, a team is working to develop a breathalyzer that can measure the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, in a user’s breath.
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The North Carolina 911 Board has awarded a $2.2 million grant to Cumberland County for a new call center, which is estimated to cost $15 million. The money will help fund a number of different needs
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After a recent test with 350 agencies that included Miami Beach, Fla., the social media giant Facebook is making its emergency alerts tool available to any government page that wants to use it.
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The county, which is home to Chicago, will partner with the national civic tech organization to clear tens of thousands of cannabis-related convictions that are eligible for erasure in the wake of a newly passed law.
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The New York State Police Department has announced that it has no plans to outfit its membership with body-worn cameras. The NYSP is the second-largest law enforcement agency in the state and ninth-largest in the nation.
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Gov. Ralph Northam has expanded the state's Framework for Addiction Analysis and Community Transformation, a data-sharing platform, to include Roanoke Valley, where opioid-related deaths have quadrupled in recent years.
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