Justice and Public Safety
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Drones and aircraft were key in Minnesota's largest manhunt, helping capture an armed and dangerous man without further violence, reflecting a broader trend of law enforcement's growing reliance on aviation technology. -
A new State of the 9-1-1 Industry report examines the barriers governments face as they work toward Next-Generation 911, including aging equipment, lack of funding and difficulty coordinating with other agencies.
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Officials in Grand Traverse County, Mich., are seeking county board approval for an artificial intelligence-powered “call taking system” that would help identify and reroute non-emergency calls to 911.
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Plus, Stanford University policy lab releases data on millions of U.S. traffic stops; three takeaways from Open Data Day 2019; and San Antonio passes a new cross-agency data-sharing agreement.
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The civil rights group says that dozens of law enforcement agencies across the country have been sharing plate data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to target undocumented immigrants.
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Erie County Prison has asked the county for a $95,000 full-body scanner to locate drugs and weapons being smuggled into the facility. The machine can locate items not found in physical strip searches, prison officials say.
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The bill's sponsor wanted to ramp up enforcement of a hard-to-enforce piece of urban traffic: cars blocking lanes meant only for public transit. But civil rights advocates are skeptical of putting more cameras in cities.
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The shutdown, which was the result of a ransomware attack, has led to public defenders in Massachusetts going without paychecks as workers scramble to restore backups. The agency did not pay the ransom.
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As chants of “shut it down” interrupted the meeting, Moore vowed to make changes to the controversial programs when he presents the agency’s response on April 9.
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The Department of Public Safety has taken harsh criticism from the governor for including thousands of U.S. citizens in a list of nearly 100,000 potential noncitizen voters to the secretary of state.
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New software and state of the art command centers are helping first responders better coordinate with staff at regional emergency rooms and hospitals. Officials herald the changes as a first in medical care.
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The state police receive photos people take for their driver's licenses without notification, and now have a massive database of face photos containing pictures numbering many times the number of residents in the state.
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The jail has implemented two video visitation solutions, one remote and one on-site. On top of letting inmates stay in touch with people who will help them reintegrate upon leaving, the system could help save work hours.
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The cities, which are right next to each other, are pursuing different vendors and different storage solutions. As a result, one is spending far less than the other. Both hope to equip officers soon.
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The state House unanimously passed a bill allocating $510,000 to a project the legislature had already outlined in a separate bill sent to the governor that would help different jurisdictions share crime information.
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Anticipating a surplus, state lawmakers are considering a budget that would include more than $3 million to issue body-worn cameras to the 650 officers in the New Mexico State Police Department.
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Software from PredPol uses artificial intelligence and evolving crime maps to determine when and where crime is being reported so police can direct patrol efforts, but concerns arise around bias in the technology.
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The concept of online dispute resolution started years ago as a way to manage disagreements between users on eBay, but now it's making civil court in the United States easier to navigate and more accessible for all.
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Innovators got the chance to pitch their tech ideas to mayors from across the country for a $10,000 prize on March 10 during the Civic I/O Mayors' Summit at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
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The new platform hopes to ease the workload for parole officers and inform smarter responses to parolee behavior by automating communications, notifications, data collection and other aspects of the probation process.
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Public safety leaders from Seattle and Boston discuss how tech can and will assist with law enforcement during the years to come, touching on challenges for adoption, artificial intelligence and more.
