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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After a tumultuous start, Boston officers will begin wearing body cameras for six months to figure out the logistics of implementing a permanent plan.
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The app allows quicker recording of damages resulting from extreme weather, making it much easier and quicker to assess damage from a severe weather event or other emergency.
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Judges in three states and several cities are using the Public Safety Assessment tool to reduce the number of people sitting in jail because they cannot pay bail, especially for nonviolent offenses.
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Following a recent legal battle between the Boston police union and the city, the department’s body camera program will launch as early as next week.
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The LAPD and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department unveiled "iWATCHLA," an app that makes filing a report as simple as a few keystrokes.
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Oregon is the fourth state to give its police access to AWS Cloud.
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The disclosure was prompted by an ACLU of Alaska records request, and Anchorage police say the device is now obsolete.
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New Jersey officials unveiled new text messaging capabilities to their 911 system in hopes of boosting response times, safety and the on-scene intelligence available to first responders.
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The Baltimore County Council formally approved acceptance of the state grant Tuesday. The money comes from the state's Emergency Number Systems Board, which collects a fee from phone users.
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The police department's body camera policy is not yet written, but Chief Fred Fletcher said leaders are giving careful consideration to the policy's scope.
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After the Baltimore Police Department ran a secret aerial surveillance program over the city for months, state lawmakers and the ACLU are considering legislation that would regulate police surveillance programs.
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Dispute over Harris County, Texas, jail video highlights the growing prevalence of using videotape to review actions by officers in making arrests and by detention officers in their treatment of inmates in jail.
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The cameras were slow to begin recording from sleep mode; they were easily knocked off officers' uniforms; and a button that turns off sound could be inadvertently pressed.
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The police department plans to outfit a total of 250 patrol cars with the routers, which will allow officers to upload data from their cameras to a storage cloud at a very high rate.
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Officials were able to recover 3,300 videos, but about 2,283 other video files were overwritten before city technicians noticed the problem.
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Defense attorneys and some legal scholars suggest that he FBI committed more serious crimes than those they’ve arrested.
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Modern technology is generating data that allows criminal justice to add shades of gray to what has long been viewed as a black and white issue.
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The exponential escalation of mobile computing and analytics has given officers intelligence on the go and greatly improved their chances of being in the right place at the right time.
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