Justice & Public Safety
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A donation of more than $400,000 enabled the county police department to add two new drones to its fleet of seven. Among residents, however, concerns over being surveilled persist. -
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.
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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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The city plans to pay for the upgrades in the future and work with Gov. Larry Hogan on funding.
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The First Responder Network Authority seeks comment on its upcoming RFP and enabling legislation.
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A new survey found that citizens across the board want more ways to report crime and to help support crime reduction efforts in their neighborhoods by leveraging new technologies.
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By turning capital expense into operating expense, managed services can provide new options to public safety IT pros working to maximize the impact of every dollar.
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Mobile technology can help officials securely distribute customized emergency plans to improve awareness, readiness and response times.
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Police forces around the Bay Area have given officers wearable cameras, but San Francisco could become the first place in the state to try the technology in a jail.
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An unofficial estimate of network deployments is sometime in 2018.
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A lawsuit against Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and Google seeks a court order for the companies to fund a public education campaign about the dangers of using a smartwatch while driving.
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The organization can use drones to get to places its helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft could not otherwise easily reach.
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More than a year after a sheriff's deputy fatally struck a bicyclist, the department has tightened its rules on the use of in-car computers.
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The county’s emergency planning committee has been working with community partners, gathering information to consolidate dispatch centers and enhance GIS capabilities.
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The new system would expand the network and fill in current coverage gaps to ensure essential communication among emergency personnel.
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Local cops in Pennsylvania will soon be able to electronically share and compare data on criminals -- but the data available may vary depending on the uploading agency.
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Civic hackers have teamed up with Long Beach officials to reduce the high number of 911 calls made by a small group of "super-users."
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Aggregating all the data and video feeds police can access is a big task, and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is looking to Motorola Solutions to simplify the issue.
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The need for expanding lidar data-collection, interpretation and outreach efforts was one of the top recommendations of the commission that studied the public-policy implications of the deadly slide.
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We all know some video should remain private. But it's impossible to predict every one of those instances.
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Police and fire chiefs say they are aware of the vicious virus and other types of hacker dangers and are taking all the precautions they can to ward them off.
