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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The emergence of FirstNet in Kansas under AT&T’s plan is expected to improve broadband coverage and service in rural areas and on tribal lands.
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As FirstNet and NG 911 mature, public safety will benefit and need to address challenges.
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The state plans to take down a data portal at some point to upgrade it, but city officials didn't want access to Rockford data to be disrupted.
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The USGS has signed new cooperative agreements with six universities and purchased nearly $1 million in new equipment.
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After years of investment, leaders say jobs are starting to come.
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The service would capture comments before they could be deleted, and send alerts for potential threats or distressed language, among other features.
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The camera technology had problems that limited its effectiveness, while revenue earnings felt short of expectations.
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The city is using a type of predictive policing called risk-terrain modeling, which aims to help police identify places that attract crime and intervene to make them less attractive to criminals.
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The LAPD presented its drone proposal to the civilian Police Commission on Tuesday and reiterated that the drones won’t fly until that panel signs off on deployment guidelines that have yet to be drafted.
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Those cases involve at-large murder, kidnapping and arson suspects, and missing senior citizens and children.
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Energy behind the effort to bring a reliable and unified network to U.S. first responders is picking up, with 50 states, two territories, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa and the District of Columbia now on board.
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Cold War-era nuclear test films being re-analyzed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California to more accurately predict current weapon yields could also better educate governments and first responders.
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Canadian officials were able to recover the flight data recorder information from the botched landing at SFO, but the voice recorder had long been overwritten.
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The system can activate phone and text alerts, broadcast emergency information over an AM radio station, and access the National Weather Service's Emergency Alert System sent to televisions and radios.
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The longer the system is used, the more useful it will become in helping guide decisions.
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The Electronic Communications Privacy Act requires SnapChat to disclose certain information to police in response to legal processes.
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Civilian complaints against police -- which can range from allegations of misconduct to harassment or physical abuse -- are considered public records after investigations have been closed.
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How New York State’s Office of the Attorney General created a new platform to combat gun trafficking through data analytics.
