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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In a first-of-its-kind event, officials from the state and federal government gathered with recreational drone pilots to set the record straight on rules and regulations surrounding the increasingly popular technology.
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The state is one of five that currently rely on an all-electronic voting system with no paper ballot backup to verify the vote, but some of these states are changing their ways.
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Ransomware attacks on state and local governments have become a very real concern that are costing the public sector millions of dollars to mitigate.
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FirstNet and AT&T distributed 80 FirstNet devices to fire, police and incident response teams to help connect first responders during the Boston Marathon.
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The Chelan County Public Utility District is taking proactive measures to protect staff after confrontations with frustrated cryptocurrency miners in the area.
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The emergency management system expanded its reach in late April and removes low-priority calls from public airwaves while improving regional agency coordination.
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The program will focus on analyzing data from other local agencies as well as hospitals and first responders to identify the “frequent utilizers” of emergency services.
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Companies testing autonomous vehicles in the state must provide annual reports to the Department of Motor Vehicles outlining when human backup drivers had to step in.
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State CIO Darryl Ackley on the challenges of modernizing infrastructure and getting to the next big thing in gov tech.
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But will cities adopt new policies in the face of controversy over the potential use of the technology in police body worn cameras?
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The 27-year-old hacker accessed the personal information of more than 1,600 former and current employees and changed the release date for a county jail inmate. In all, the cyberattack cost the county more than $235,000.
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The Union Square Business Improvement District started its small six-camera program in 2012 but have since expanded to more than 350 with the help of grant funding.
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The $47,000 move will make the department the first in Franklin County to deploy the cameras.
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The new biometric program uses facial recognition to identify all inbound and outbound passengers, making the airport the first in the country to fully deploy the technology.
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The prevalence of autonomous vehicles is leading some advocates to call for more transparency around safety and accidents the vehicles are involved in.
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The city of Crossville, Tenn., was denied a request to rejoin the Central Communications Dispatch Center after withdrawing from the regional collective in 2016.
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Law enforcement is already using social media to watch, assess and sometimes arrest citizens. But they haven't necessarily considered all the ethical implications of that approach.
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The third Internet of Things Civic Hackathon, at the new Indiana IoT Lab in Fishers, brought together around 600 developers and first responders to create technology solutions for public safety.
