Justice & Public Safety
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The City Council signed off on directing roughly $360,000 in state funds to the police department. Of that, more than $43,000 is earmarked for software that will let police “obtain and retain” digital evidence. -
County commissioners will consider spending more than $3.2 million over 10 years to replace body-worn and in-car sheriff’s office cameras. Software, data storage and accessories would be included.
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The local police department recently unveiled a new rooftop drone port at headquarters. The agency fielded approximately 10,000 drone flights in 2025 and expects about twice as many this year.
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While there are major law enforcement benefits to automatic license plate readers, a lack of safeguards has brought major negative consequences that need to be addressed as this technology continues to spread.
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The new rules require that agencies put in place public policies regarding the use of any surveillance technology before it is acquired, and issue annual reports on how the technologies have been used and what they discovered.
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Several states are looking into technology that would block cellular signals and make contraband phones useless to inmates.
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Brown County, S.D., commissioners approved a resolution for online video visitation software to make it easier for inmates to communicate with loved ones.
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The department has submitted 10 sets of data, which will be updated and published every three months on the city’s website and on the federal police data website.
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy calls on technologists and innovators to help reform the criminal justice system with artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics.
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More than half of the cases still under investigation by the city's police oversight agency included dashcam videos, surveillance footage and audio.
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has signed into law legislation governing use of body cameras and classifies the data captured by those cameras.
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According to some, the FAA could introduce laws limiting the height and speed at which drones can travel.
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The key to successful 911 call location for local agencies is the incorporation of several new technologies including phones with better GPS locating capabilities and the 911 center's adoption of CAD systems synced with Google Maps.
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About 3,200 people a year die from “distraction-affected crashes," and a Louisiana-based company called Cellcontrol is hoping its technology can help change the consumer habits that generate those kinds of numbers.
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The bill outlines access to police body cam footage, and now largely mirrors existing state public records law.
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The San Francisco Police Union unanimously approved a proposal for body worn cameras that requires officers to make an initial statement of facts before screening body-camera footage.
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State legislators step back from a bill that would limit such technology and instead take a reasonable approach — that should serve as a model for state legislators considering regulation for other emerging technologies.
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A new study has found that when police-worn body cameras are in play, citizen assaults on cops went up.
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After an early version of a drone regulation bill was passed from the New Hampshire House to the Senate, businesses became concerned over the new laws prohibiting their ability to operate UAVs.
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A new federal ruling should help airlines avoid “a patchwork of different regulations around the country.”
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Project Green Light links together private cameras and feeds directly to a real-time crime center at Detroit Public Safety Headquarters.
