Justice & Public Safety
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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." -
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 Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday.
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Local government officials team up to develop standards and a data repository for 311 centers.
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Connecticut and Kansas are working to install next-generation 911 systems, which some say are a necessity in an ever-burgeoning wireless mobile society.
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A new $160 million program will track police officers via GPS and give every officer a mobile fingerprint scanner.
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The LAFD has posted the information on its website, which details overall average response times and those for each of the individual 102 stations in the city.
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Critics complain they are back to where they were 10 to 15 years ago, listening to each and every radio call to determine which fire station and fire truck should respond to each new call.
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Despite the rapid onset of mobile devices, GPS and high-speed Internet, the nation’s emergency response system is largely a relic frozen in time. But perhaps one East Bay company can finally drag 911 into the 21st century.
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Increased state investment in fusion centers may suggest a change of opinion on the information-gathering groups.
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More than 20 minutes elapsed before the medics arrived at the fire scene; the "cumbersome" process, worsened by "human error," involved no fewer than seven staff members from three agencies.
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City officials have amassed a significant amount of crime statistics to identify high risk individuals, criminal social networks and the neighborhoods that foster them.
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Participating police agencies are given special software, and agree to automatically upload collected phone data to a master database that is accessible to others within the network.
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The city's police chief said his department captured screenshots of images loaded on Instagram, Twitter and anonymous social media app Yik Yak and plans to use them to develop suspects.
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Fire departments in the five-county area have developed a digital database of high-risk structures — those critical to the nation's daily operations, high-rises and some large commercial buildings.
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Privacy groups say the surveillance equipment used is so intrusive that it violates the Constitution’s prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure.
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The powerful tool replaces legacy technology and lets police officers automatically compare a suspect's digital facial image against more than 20 million images, but it has accuracy limits and has raised concerns among privacy groups.
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Users within the vicinity of an emergency will get a notification from Facebook asking if they’re safe.
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Portland, Ore., is among the locations hoping for a Resilient Cities grant as Alameda, Calif., goes its own way.
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Unveiled this month, the University of Miami’s 38,000-gallon research tank will let scientists map Category 5 hurricanes in three dimensions for the first time.
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In the wake of standoffs between Ferguson protesters and armed police, President Obama ordered a thorough review of the Pentagon's 1033 program, which transfers excess military equipment to state and local police across the country.
