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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Though some are concerned about the privacy implications of using genealogy databases to identify suspects, law enforcement officials think it could help close stalled cases.
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Despite the call for a conversation around body-worn camera policies, police officials argue there is little that could be added to the existing draft policy.
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Officials say the vehicle, which was in autonomous mode at the time of the crash, was simply in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
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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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