Justice and Public Safety
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During a recent briefing on Capitol Hill, leaders and members of national associations considered artificial intelligence use cases and topics, along with a new playbook guiding the technology’s ethical, scalable adoption. -
Proposed City Council legislation that would compel police to restore limited news media access to radio communications advanced to a second reading. Police leadership warned doing so could violate state and federal laws and policies.
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City commissioners planned to vote this week on a vendor contract but have continued their conversation about implementing the cameras, to monitor vehicle traffic and deter crime. Some opposition emerged during public comment.
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Your face is all you need to board some flights at the Florida airport as of Friday, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection and MIA officials announced a new facial recognition boarding system.
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A new program in the Virginia Beach, Va., jail is making it easier for inmates to communicate with their families through voice, text and video — but those connections come at a cost.
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A network of cameras that feed directly into the police department’s Strategic Technology and Resource center is offering new perspective on incidents as they happen. Officials say the program takes the place of 50 officers.
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With the mentality of “if you can predict it, you can prevent it,” police in the district will leverage a new Strategic Decision Support Center to fight crime. The hub will be home to new software and technology to support data-driven enforcement.
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Air traffic at Newark Liberty International Airport was suspended for more than an hour last week after pilots reported seeing unmanned aerial vehicles nearby. The Federal Aviation Administration reports roughly 100 sightings each month nationally.
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Within this year’s Startup in Residence cohort, Civis Analytics is teaming up with the city to help residents there get a better understanding of what could happen to their homes during a major flood.
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A task force reviewing the response to the Feb. 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting found deficiencies in radio communication bandwidth and a lack of control of the system during the incident.
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Officials say positive train controls, which automatically slow a train traveling too fast, could have prevented the accident that killed two Amtrak employees and injured nearly 100 others.
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Federal agents tracked an individual known only as Billmaker through shadowy online marketplaces before confronting and killing him in a gun battle in an Oklahoma City suburb.
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Like many other dispatch centers that have adopted the modern technology, officials in the Napa area say the text option is only to be used when a conversation is not possible for safety reasons.
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After an increase in crime and killings in the central city, Denver police officials elected to expand the ShotSpotter technology that detects gunshots and add more officers to police the area.
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An investigation run out of the federal prosecutor’s office in Tampa, Fla, resulted in the dark Web marketplace being shut down. The site sold access to identity information and hacked servers among other things.
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More than 1,000 files in the case against against hackers supported by a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin ended up online, Special Counsel Robert Mueller told a federal judge. It is suspected that the law firm working with Mueller was intentionally targeted.
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The new technology will come in the form of updated in-car camera systems, body-worn cameras for all uniformed officers, new computers and video systems for department interview rooms.
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An increase in the offensive use of low-flying commercially-available drones against U.S. military forces is behind a $108 million contract to provide technology to counter the devices.
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A proposed rule that speeders be subjected to possible time in jail has been pulled back to “to eliminate any possibility that criminal penalties could apply to a rider.”
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The police department is asking for the funds to purchase the stun guns and body cameras that activate when a gun or Taser has been fired.
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Police and Decatur School District officials have turned their eyes toward social media platforms to watch for the warning signs of credible threats to students.
