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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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.
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Officials are hoping the technology can tip them off to early warning signs of an event like the deadly smog that took 20 lives in nearby Donora more than a half-century ago.
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Through a new partnership, the state of Maryland and social network Nextdoor are focusing on getting better information out faster and more efficiently.
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The main purpose of the app is to help educate residents and property owners in high-risk wildland areas on how to prepare for wildfires.
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And just as the legal cloud-computing giants aim to efficiently offer products of broad use to a wide customer base, criminal computing services do the same.
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The department has started to use its online page as the primary means of communicating with the public and local media, but in a way that is different from most public safety agencies.
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The newly equipped trucks went live on The Weather Channel for the first time Friday.
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What if a life-saving drone could be thrown into the water and maneuvered out to the victim?
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