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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Together with Portland State University’s School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland, Ore.’s Fire and Rescue Bureau is strategically using public data to reduce emergency call volume and improve city vibrancy.
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A mobile app sends 911 a message with location and other personal data from connected IoT devices, automatically giving responders information in place of the user making a phone call.
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With the goal of locating missing people and stolen vehicles, the Flagler County Sheriff's Office is turning to the plate scanners at undisclosed locations. The data can also be shared with local state and federal law enforcement agencies.
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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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