Justice and Public Safety
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Resilient regions and organizations require well thought out disaster plans addressing recovery and mitigation. In creating them, state officials said, collaboration with other governments and communities is essential.
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While mobile IDs promise new access for people with disabilities, a "one ID, one device" model and accessibility failures threaten to exacerbate the digital divide, according to experts in the field.
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Officials are upgrading software designed to share data from police agencies, dispatchers and jail staff. A popular online log of inmate mug shots has gone dark during the update but emergency response systems are unaffected.
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A new software service could save Benton County investigators hundreds of hours searching for potential suspects, but opponents say the tool could be used to intimidate and violate civil liberties.
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Officials this week announced that the department had purchased a second electric Rosenbauer RTX fire engine using $1.1 million in funding from Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
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Despite criticism, the city passed legislation for a 15-month surveillance pilot program that greatly expanded the powers of police to temporarily monitor live video feeds from privately owned cameras.
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Pitkin County, home to Aspen, will soon have new tools for 911 dispatchers to use to locate lost backcountry skiers. The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office will install a mapping technology to consolidate incoming emergency information.
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Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell said that Justice Department officials called her about the report release. She said she was surprised that the news got out because DOJ wanted the matter kept "top secret."
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The gov tech firm has announced its highest sales ever for its BolaWrap product. It’s part of a larger trend among agencies and their tech providers to respond to changing police practices and citizen expectations.
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Residents in Lehigh County can now provide 911 dispatchers with smartphone camera access to allow them to gather firsthand information about the particular emergency being reported.
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Ten automated license plate reader cameras from Flock Safety will be installed in select locations this year. The move is seen as a force multiplier for the police department, which has struggled with staffing issues.
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The capital, from GI Partners, stands as the latest example of growing private equity interest in gov tech. BusPatrol’s cameras, AI and other tools catch drivers trying to drive around stopped school buses.
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From location mapping for first responders to automated court transcriptions, justice and public safety is a hot spot for companies serving the state and local government market.
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On Jan. 15, a new law is scheduled to take effect in Ohio that will compel many other social media platforms to ask for a parent's permission before establishing an account for minors under the age of 16.
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Disputes over voting machines and election security culminate in a federal trial this week, a test of whether Georgia’s election system is dangerously vulnerable to errors or hacks that could throw an election.
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Daviess County Central Dispatch is putting some new technology that expands both the information dispatchers can receive and streamlines the center's ability to respond to the public.
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Google has reached a deal in a class-action lawsuit accusing it of making an Orwellian grab of potentially embarrassing data from tens of millions of people using the company's Incognito mode.
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In Kentucky courts, the video recording is the official record with no written transcript. CIO Charles Byers discusses what led to this approach and the features vital to meeting the court's needs.
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Tensions persist between manual and electronic documentation of proceedings.
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AI tools will change how judges do their jobs and how they understand “the role that AI plays in the cases that come before them,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in his end-of-year report.
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The League City Council has approved an updated agreement with private security camera company, Flock Safety, to install additional cameras in response to an upsurge of vehicle break-ins at parks.