Justice & Public Safety
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In the two years since the state released guidance for localities interested in speed or red-light cameras, fewer than 10 percent of its municipalities have submitted and won approval of plans. -
Responder MAX will focus on marketing, communications, recruitment and other areas. First Arriving, which has worked with some 1,300 agencies, will keep involved with its "real-time information platform."
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San Jose is the latest city whose use of the cameras to snag criminal suspects, critics say, also threatens privacy and potentially runs afoul of laws barring access by out-of-state and federal agencies.
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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.
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The act also permits the construction of "tactical infrastructure and technology," including President Trump's controversial border wall proposal.
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Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome's office confirmed that until a report on contracts, projects and funding for the data-driven Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination program is complete, contracts issued in the past two months have been put on hold.
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Criminals have increasingly turned to drones as a tool for sneaking drugs, cellphones and weapons into prisons. Now, drones are not legally allowed to fly near prisons in the state of North Carolina.
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The ambitious effort aims to produce better outcomes while spending taxpayer money wisely.
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Unlike the new network initiative FirstNet, this system uses existing internet connections by giving priority to rescue workers' data.
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Part of the problem was an earlier failure of the system's automatic backup function.
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The technological development is a natural evolution following the massive increase in drone operation licenses granted by the FAA since August.
