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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Traffic cameras may not earn you a speeding ticket anymore in parts of Iowa.
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Officers have taken to using hashtags like #ThrowemUnderthebusThursday and #SnitchonhimSaturday to gain public's help in solving crime.
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Online features such as texts, video, games and social media would be blocked, as well as some or all non-emergency telephone calls.
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In Pennsylvania, the Wilkes-Barre Twp. Police Department's Facebook page has gotten mixed reactions, but the online presence has provoked significant citizen engagement.
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A plane flying 25,000 feet above can photograph more than 20 square miles at a time, then zoom in on a place and time to track participants in the minutes leading up to an incident, or the getaway after.
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Mapping and sharing data will help first responders save lives in the wake of disasters.
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An analysis of 981 traffic stops made by 245 Oakland officers in April 2014 found that officers were more apt to use terms of respect such as "sir," "ma'am," "please" and "thank you" when dealing with white motorists compared to black ones.
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The scientific reality is that these risk assessment tools cannot do what advocates claim.
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A Detroit man's cellphone data was used to convict him.
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Information from multiple information resources available in real-time will enable any member of the Department of Public Safety to easily access it at any time.
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Drone legislation is notoriously vague, but Massachusetts is looking to solidify its regulations.
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In the first month and a half of 2016, alerts set up on the monitoring software went off at least 146 times, but none of the alerts documented over that six-week time span contained any hint of criminal activity.
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State and local government IT leaders are implementing lightweight tech fixes that generate big returns.
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The inaccurate data could be fueling theories that young black youths, in particular, are being kidnapped to work for sex traffickers, which has prompted at least two St. Louis area police departments to revamp how they keep track of missing juveniles.
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The Nixle alert and advisory system also links to Facebook and Twitter.
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Scientists say the loss of federal funding would derail the early warning system, which officials hope would one day send alerts to smartphones seconds or even minutes before a temblor.
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CivicReady doesn't have a data cap, and it's likely to cost less money than the previous provider, CodeRED.
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The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is scheduled this morning to consider approval of a project that will develop an electronic portal for sharing data on alleged perpetrators and others within investigations of child abuse or neglect. The project will be done through a work order under the county's master services agreement with IBM.
