Justice & Public Safety
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The Osceola County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of new portable and dual band radios at a cost of $330,552 during its meeting Dec. 16, by a vote of 5-1. -
The new unit, part of the Office of Information Technology Services’ statewide strategy, will focus on New York State Police’s specific needs while preserving shared IT services like AI and information security.
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The City Council has approved a three-year, $200,000 contract to install the surveillance devices. Data collected may be used by other state and local law enforcement at city discretion, the police chief said.
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According to warnings issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as many as 750,000 heart devices made by Medtronic PLC are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could physically harm patients.
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Residents are being urged to sign a petition supporting a $8.9 million surveillance camera network. The money would come from local and federal traffic signal modernization funds.
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Cambridge and Somerville are investing in traffic analytics technology to assess how and why pedestrians and cyclists are under increasing risk of an accident on their streets and what can be done to improve safety.
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The legislation that took aim at drivers “under the influence of an electronic device” — talking on a cellphone or texting — has lost momentum and is likely to fizzle out completely, according the lawmaker behind it.
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Five winners will be selected during the Smart Cities Week conference April 15-17 in San Diego. Those cities will become part of the year-long Readiness Program to scale up smart city visions into reality.
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The cameras will automatically activate if the rear door of an officer’s cruiser is opened, if the vehicle is involved in a high-speed pursuit or if a nearby officer’s body camera is activated.
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Children can't handle watching live-streamed massacres – and adults shouldn't have to.
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A new restraining tool is being marketed to law enforcement in the U.S. and abroad as non-lethal and potentially painless. The company is now led by former TASER International co-founder Thomas Smith.
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Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center show that U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to use facial recognition at 20 major international airports on 16,300 flights per week by 2021.
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The Lafayette Parish Communication District hopes to have the system operating within the next year, but emergency dispatchers will train on a beta version until the new program is ready to go live.
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People – individually and in groups – were not as good at facial recognition as an algorithm. But five people plus the algorithm, working together, were even better.
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Those involved with the development and use of online dispute resolution platforms see opportunities for the systems that extend well past divorces and small claims court.
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South Carolina-based Avtec is Motorola Solutions' eighth acquisition since February 2016, and brings in a company whose customers include public safety agencies, utilities, railroads, airlines and more.
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Up to 88 percent of trafficking victims report coming into contact with someone that could have helped them, while as few as 2 percent are located and connected with the proper care. New technology hopes to change that.
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Law enforcement in the communities of Middletown and West Chester, Ohio, are asking residents to register their security cameras so officers can quickly request footage in the event of a crime.
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So-called interlock devices are generally only required by state courts after someone has been arrested for drunk driving, but members of Congress are pushing legislation that would mandate the devices to keep drunk drivers off the road.
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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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