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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The Community Resilience Platform (CRP) is the first daily-use, customizable, white label preparedness, planning, response and recovery platform developed for communities to build their own regional and local resilience platforms.
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If all goes as planned, police will be able to track suspects remotely — in real time — through surveillance cameras being monitored from police headquarters.
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If this investment is not made, radar outages and gaps will be experienced, which will negatively impact tornado and flash flood warnings.
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The site, known as Darkode.com, was seized by federal authorities Tuesday. A dozen people associated with the site were charged or arrested in federal courts across the country.
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The partnership between the National Fusion Center Association and cybersecurity firm FireEye means that fusion centers nationwide will gain threat landscape visibility on a global scale, as well as in their individual states or regions.
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Though cloud computing is increasingly the way law enforcement is storing and managing data, it is not without its difficulties.
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As the prison-industrial complex booms with the incarceration of low-risk, nonviolent offenders, those incarcerated go ignored. Can tracking software help?
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During a massive fire in the San Bernardino Mountains, firefighting planes were grounded because of the interference of unmanned aircraft flying dangerously close to the air tankers.
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The bureau has sought competitive bids for a contract limited to modernizing its own network, but the action is still drawing allegations of bias from Motorola’s biggest rival, Harris Corp., which has formally protested.
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The expectation of two-way interaction should stop when the page’s fans begin to expect urgent help, according to West Virginia Police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous.
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Although there haven’t been any issues with people making 911 calls, dispatchers have had difficulty managing and distributing call records between police and fire departments.
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Any high-priority 911 calls will now be filtered through a database to assess any possible threats an officer may encounter while responding.
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The lens into HackingTeam, a company that helps law enforcement hack into digital networks, could confirm the suspicions of civil rights advocates, who’ve called for greater transparency and more restrictions related to surveillance.
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Users can view the latest criminal and emergency activity on a map as it is filtered through the Oakland Police Department’s 911-dispatch system.
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While firefighters' working realities have changed profoundly in recent decades, their government structures and operating protocols remain largely frozen in bureaucratic amber.
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All of the state’s 104 public service answering points are scheduled for a changeover by next year.
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Traffic and other camera systems can help boost situational awareness during emergencies and planned events.
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Due to the fact emails before March 2014 are not in a searchable format, a programmer would have to be hired to execute the task of searching through old emails.
