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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Privacy concerns have helped ground drone plans in San Jose and Berkeley.
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COPsync — a messaging system public safety officials can use to tie into a central system and share information in real time — serves as an antidote to the longtime flaw that police agencies couldn't talk to one another quickly enough when it matters most.
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The Texas Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 179 last week and House Bill 306 is still pending in the House Public Education Committee.
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Data dumping technology allows police departments to access a suspect’s cellphone and retrieve contacts, call history, text messages and other information.
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The Facebook page will be a place where people can leave tips, emails and information they believe will be useful to police.
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A man submitted a false report of being assaulted by two black males wearing hoodies, but videos posted to the man's Facebook account told the police a different story.
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Research should be completed by 2019 and ideas handed over for the FAA to implement no later than 2025.
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A useful outcome depends not only on good mathematical analysis: It also needs good data. That’s where predictive policing often falls short.
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The system can't handle the reams of data from the video captured and then sent to the Police Department.
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In April, the city decided that its temporary command center needed to go undercover, and subsequently removed videos of council meetings from YouTube and records of council actions from the city website.
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The initiative will be modeled after the New York Police Department’s “Shield” program, a clearinghouse for crime alerts, threat updates, training and latest offerings from counterterrorism experts.
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The police posted that they are "aware of the social media posts about the threats at the Garden City High School and are investigating the incident.”
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The fundamental problem is that no one in the government is responsible for securing the internet for all of us.
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Current law prohibits police from using wiretaps except to investigate offenses committed "in connection with organized crime," which excludes a wide variety of serious and violent crimes.
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The tests at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport are the sixth and final in a series of tests around the country evaluating different technologies for drone detection.
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FirstNet also is on track to achieve a number of key milestones, such as the delivery of draft state plans in June — three months ahead of the original target.
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Assemblyman James Gallagher has led the making of a video to accompany a bill to protect California from future threats caused by the dam's aged infrastructure.
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Some people are growing increasingly concerned with loose technology regulations on issues like revenge porn and teen sexting.
