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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Officials quickly learned after testing began the cameras were not strong enough for the prisons’ security needs.
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Carmakers are in hot pursuit of fleet sales to law enforcement agencies.
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Some jailers are wary of the video visitation rates, in part because of a federal crackdown on costly calls charged to inmates via conventional phones and critics who say inmates are being exploited.
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The lawsuit claims the Department of Corrections broke the law because state officials convened as a legislative committee to help shape public policy, but they didn’t invite the public to any of their meetings.
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The comments come a little more than a week after the ACLU sued a California sheriff's department over its refusal to release documents surrounding how devices are used.
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The proposed use-of-force unit stems from the nearly yearlong re-engineering review of the NYPD.
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The much sought-after state research center is expected to revolutionize firefighting.
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For the first time ever, state agency radio users across jurisdictions and departments can communicate over a single, statewide emergency radio network.
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The virus was discovered recently as information technology workers were trying to figure out what has been slowing the department's computers.
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The new solution tracks everything about an inmate and helps the Michigan DOC process 12,000 transactions each day.
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A DHS-funded pilot program enlists tech accelerators to help startups develop commercially viable wearable products and adopt them for first responder use.
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The cost of 911 services has been a topic of discussion in Cumberland County, which pays $2.5 million annually from its general fund to subsidize the county’s 911 call center.
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Human error and outdated technology have miscalculated thousands of prison sentences and cost some states millions of dollars.
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More than 200 applied for the position, but an Amazon executive will fill the role as the Seattle Police Department's new head of technology.
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The attack is similar to those that have happened in other cities after incidents like the controversial fatal shooting of Tony Robinson by a Madison police officer Feb. 6.
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One of the biggest changes in Decatur County, Ind., has been the Emergency Operations Center expansion and the establishment of a center for coordinated emergency efforts.
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The new wave of police-created videos bring a new set of questions to the fore regarding open records and privacy issues, and an investigation's integrity if video is released immediately.
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Another signature achievement of the Obama Administration – the First Responder Network Authority – appears headed down a path similar to the original Healthcare.gov. Can officials fix it?
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