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 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.
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The app will be used to distribute information about floods, fires, missing persons, contaminated water and ongoing criminal activity, among other situations.
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Lighthouse Prime is a program created to help residents ready themselves and their families for natural and man-made catastrophes.
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The announcement comes on the heels of an FBI investigation that included the serving of federal search warrants at three massage businesses in Joplin in late January.
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Cost and effectiveness, however, may mean little to residents worried about the implications greater drone usage might have for their personal privacy.
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Last summer, California lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown approved $10 million for the early warning system.
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The Department of Corrections Board of Probation and Parole installed 364 GPS ankle monitors on sex offenders in April because of new security requirements.
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The City Council also approved spending about $3.3 million to implement the Smart Columbus electrification plan.
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