Justice & Public Safety
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The state legislation would allow the inmates to get remote employment with approved businesses and companies that choose to participate in the yet-unnamed program. -
The Town Board approved the installation of the cameras on municipal property at its work session earlier this week, with the number of planned cameras dropping from eight to four.
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When the Eaton Fire broke out in the foothills near Altadena, the Los Angeles County Fire Department did not have access to a satellite-based fire-tracking program regularly used by other agencies.
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With more tourists in the region, Oneula is included in the list of 13 parks where the city of Kapolei and the Hawaii Tourism Authority will spend nearly $250,000 to install 192 security cameras by the end of the year.
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Officials are grappling with an existential question that quake-prone countries such as Japan and Mexico have faced before: Is it better to issue too many earthquake warning alerts or not enough?
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office confirmed that the FBI had accessed the state’s facial-recognition database three times in the past year, but said none of the searches involved millions of driver’s licenses.
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The Amazon Web Services Summit Thursday in New York was attended by hundreds of protesters calling for an end to the company’s relationship with U.S. Immigation and Customs Enforcement.
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Larry Calderone, vice president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, told lawmakers he did not think a uniform approach to body cameras would work, given the number of variables in different communities.
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People who do not want to use the technology at Charlotte and Raleigh airports would have an opportunity to opt out. Those travelers would be vetted by the more traditional means now used at the airports.
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A virus infected computers in Stafford County and prompted IT personnel to shut down the network June 28. Authorities are looking into the cyberattack, but are not giving many details due to the ongoing nature of the case.
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It will take at least two years for a contractor to build a custom case management system for the Paternity and Child Support Division. The existing system is experiencing technical issues and is currently down.
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The Overland Park Public Safety Committee voted this week to approve $430,000 toward the purchase of body cameras. The department opted to work with the vendor that supplies its in-car cameras.
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Subscribers are immediately notified of their court date and room or any changes, as well as court date reminders seven days and one day in advance.
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Thanks to wireless technology, the number of non-urgent, unintended and prank calls to 911 has skyrocketed. But dispatchers have a number of tools and strategies at their disposal to fight back.
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People banned from two public buildings in the Idaho city could soon find it more difficult to slip by staff. Officials say the move will boost security, though official regulations are not yet in place.
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Police, the media and society writ large are having to learn how to handle a host of new privacy and legal concerns stemming from the misidentifications of criminal suspects by new technologies.
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Following a recent 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Southern California, Los Angeles will lower the notification threshold on its ShakeAlertLA app, alerting users when temblors of at least a 4.5 magnitude occur.”
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In prior years’ capital improvement plans for the city, there was roughly $80,000 envisioned in start-up costs for a body camera program, but that figure has now proved itself to be too low.
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Kenosha County, Wis., recently implemented a new way to contact 911 by using text messaging in the event of an emergency, and nearby Racine County is now moving to obtain the same technology.
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As many as 2,000 speed cameras will be placed throughout 750 school zones to catch speeders. Since the program launched in 2014, speeding at locations with cameras has decreased by more than 60 percent, officials say.
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Two mass shootings highlighted deficiencies in Broward and Palm Beach counties’ radio communications, but efforts to rectify the situation with a 400-foot communications tower are getting opposition from the community.
