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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ISU Gaurdian is a safety app that allows users to send real-time location updates to a group of friends or family and alert them of any danger, and users can also anonymously report crimes on campus.
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As natural and man-made disasters strike with greater intensity, the need has increased for effective technology during these crises.
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The new radio systems allow first responders in Franklin, Adams, and Dauphin counties to maintain contact with each other through a Motorola DSR system backup core if main communication system fails.
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Working under the auspices of Ontario Systems since being acquired in May, Justice Systems will unveil new case management and revenue recovery tools at a conference next week in Las Vegas.
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Worcester is the latest Massachusetts city to try out body-worn cameras, a transparency and accountability tool that has spread in popularity among U.S. police departments in the last several years.
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The company will ultimately pay millions in the legal compromise that followed a data breach kept secret for more than a year. The personal information of some 600,000 drivers was compromised in the 2016 incident.
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The move toward the Odyssey Case Management software will bring the county in line with 62 others using the product.
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The surveillance cameras in Staten Island Courthouse interview rooms raised concerns about the ability for defendants to speak freely with their representation, prompting a federal court to consider the implications.
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The changes take the department’s detection capabilities from 3 square miles to more than 18 square miles with a three-year, $3.4 million contract with California-based Shotspotter.
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According to the logs, official warnings about the rapidly approaching Camp Fire reached fewer than 6,200 of the 27,000 Paradise residents who had signed up for the notifications.
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Nearly $70,000 in Department of Justice grant money will not be flowing into the city’s bank account next year because of new language and requirements regarding asylum seekers.
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A yearlong investigation into a hack against Florida’s Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University computers led federal authorities and police to an employee and student, who were allegedly using a program designed to capture administrator passwords.
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A bipartisan effort to keep the development of early warning systems in the Pacific Northwest on track was passed by Congress, but still needs presidential approval.
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A third-party application is being considered as a way to confidentially report instances of sexual harassment and assault. A 2016 UW survey found that very few survivors ever reported incidents to the university.
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Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammad Shah Mansouri are accused of authoring the ransomware, named SamSam, and unleashing it on more than 200 victims, including the cities of Atlanta and Newark, the port of San Diego.
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While wildfire warning and evacuation plans were in place for Butte County ahead of the blaze, they weren't sufficient, experts told lawmakers, and the state must improve its systems for alerting citizens ahead of hazards.
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The social media company’s partnership with the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Computer Forensics Research Lab will center on identifying the street names for drugs and stopping sales over the site.
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A lawsuit filed by the technology company alleges that a former employee attempted to download the details of a highly classified project before leaving to work for a competitor.
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