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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The app was only designed to alert users physically located in Los Angeles County. What was felt Thursday, while seemingly scary, was actually not that bad — either level 2 or level 3 shaking, or “weak shaking.”
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While some police leaders and academics expected predictive technology centered on the use of data to revolutionize law enforcement by pre-empting criminal activity, that hasn't happened yet.
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Proposals to ban handheld phones while driving have gone nowhere in the General Assembly for several years. Similar legislation failed in 2011, and attempts from the Senate to ban devices also fell short.
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For investigators in Lehigh County, a database was instrumental in determining that last month’s mass shooting incident outside an Allentown, Pa., nightclub was linked to a feud between rival gangs.
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According to Police Chief Scott Schubert, the cities nearly 900 officers will be outfitted with body-worn cameras in 2019. The move comes as an influx of small-town police departments statewide ponder similar programs.
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In the wake of a fatal police shooting, the city is considering purchasing more body cameras for officers later this year or in 2020, but it has not yet revealed the exact details of its plans.
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The introduction of speed cameras was recommended by Police Chief Shane Themas, who collected data showing the need for speed cameras, in particular along the city's stretch of Interstate 80 corridor.
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Following confusion about the use of tornado sirens for heavy wind events, Warren County, Ill., is looking for a new way to alert the public about severe weather. An opt-in text system seems to fit the need.
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The city’s ordinance requires dealers to notify customers that the federal government sets radiation standards for cellphones, and that exposure “may exceed the federal guidelines” in some instances.
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Last year, Palm Beach County had 2,509 distracted driving crashes, the fifth-highest in the state. One hundred thirty-four of those crashes resulted in serious injuries and three were fatal.
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Officials with the New York Department of Transportation are considering an early warning system to reduce bridge crashes. Large trucks on the Onondaga Lake Parkway have been hitting the rail crossing for decades.
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City council members voiced concerns about the potential for the contractor to sell or share data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that could be used to track down undocumented immigrants.
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There's not much in the way of hard numbers, but a solid guess based on surveys would be that a little more than half of all law enforcement agencies in the U.S. use body-worn cameras in some capacity.
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The city is one of a handful of local governments creating new rules around the use of the technology. Officials at all levels of government have voiced concern about built-in bias and the need for regulation.
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A report on face-recognition technology from the company’s independent advisory board raises serious concerns about face matching, and recommends treating face recognition with caution.
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California lawmakers Wednesday tasked State Auditor Elaine Howle with looking into how law enforcement agencies in the state use and share the data gathered through license plate-scanning technology.
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If the it does pass, Oakland will be either the second or third city in the nation to ban its departments from using the technology. San Francisco already banned the equipment, and Berkeley is voting July 9th.
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A recently enacted law adds clarity to the rules around body camera footage as public record — something that has been a deterrent for smaller departments — but the changes will likely come with costs.
