Justice & Public Safety
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In the two years since the state released guidance for localities interested in speed or red-light cameras, fewer than 10 percent of its municipalities have submitted and won approval of plans. -
Responder MAX will focus on marketing, communications, recruitment and other areas. First Arriving, which has worked with some 1,300 agencies, will keep involved with its "real-time information platform."
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San Jose is the latest city whose use of the cameras to snag criminal suspects, critics say, also threatens privacy and potentially runs afoul of laws barring access by out-of-state and federal agencies.
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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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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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