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 2014 law requiring all New Jersey municipalities to outfit new police patrol cars with dashboard cameras is unconstitutional because it does not provide an adequate funding source.
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The bill must be reconciled with a House measure, which does not pre-empt local and state laws. The FAA is currently working to complete its first drone regulations.
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Faced with an outdated, non-functioning legacy system, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development turned to a new system to more efficiently and cost-effectively manage the inspection and reporting process for levees in the state.
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Thomas F. Hogan, chief judge of the FISA court, ruled that the nation’s spy agencies and the FBI were following proper procedures in how they selected targets for surveillance, gathered intelligence data and later mined it.
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In February, the encryption issue reemerged after federal officials demanded that Apple help bypass the passcode on a phone belonging to one of the shooters in December’s San Bernardino attack.
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The projectiles will be fired and attached to vehicles attempting to evade police so law enforcement can track them without having to engage in a dangerous high-speed chase.
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The legislation to allow police to use a “textalyzer” to determine whether drivers have been using their cellphones at the scene of a car accident has raised privacy concerns among some civil liberties groups.
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The Michigan attorney general is set to announce felony and misdemeanor charges against as many as four people in state and local government connected to water contamination in Flint.
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The Flood Alert System uses radar, rain gauges, cameras and modeling to indicate whether Houston’s Brays Bayou is at risk of overflowing and flooding the Texas Medical Center.
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In early April, U.S. prosecutors penned a letter to a federal judge in Brooklyn requesting that Apple unlock an iPhone in a drug trafficking case, but the tech giant claims there is no proof that an unlocked iPhone is necessary.
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Despite its initial fanfare, the camera plan came under scrutiny at City Hall over its costs — $57.6 million over five years — with one council member saying he was experiencing "sticker shock."
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Microsoft's case, filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, challenges a law enforcement tool the company argues is being used in a way that violates its rights and those of its customers.
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Though only a small number of municipalities have efforts to register and utilize privately owned security cameras in their jurisdictions, the movement is growing.
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The bill is meant to help victims in abusive relationships and those who are being stalked by making it a misdemeanor to covertly place GPS devices on a motor vehicle.
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Texas prison inmates shouldn't be allowed to have active social media accounts, even if friends or family on the outside actually run them, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has decided.
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One estimate shows that by 2020, 75 percent of new cars will have Internet connectivity, causing some officials to worry about the possibility of a terrorist attack on smart vehicles.
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The technology is what any speeder should expect in the Information Age: The police officer keys in a plate or driver's license number, and the in-cruiser laptop computer handles the vast majority of data entry after that.
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A number of federal courts have ruled in recent years that using a stun gun on suspects who put up nonviolent resistance is unconstitutional excessive force.
