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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The new strategy comes after Mayor Martin J. Walsh promised a “fast-tracked” set of changes in the wake of a Herald report detailing the city’s grim inventory of 336 unsolved slayings over a decade’s time.
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The new device can detect minute movements and could save lives in the next large-scale disaster.
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Senate Bill 962 has been one of the more high-profile and intensely lobbied bills in the Legislature this year, however, in recent months, many of the bill’s opponents have quieted.
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A new land mobile radio system helps the county manage nearly 70,000 annual emergency calls across its rugged terrain.
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Spurred by the role its hosts played after Hurricane Sandy, Airbnb partners with cities that plan to leverage its platform in emergencies.
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Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute are in the early stages of a novel idea to move stop and yield signs, among other posted traffic, from the side of the road into the car itself.
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Increasingly, the faces on the posters of missing teens aren't taken by a school photographer or a parent but by the teens themselves. The selfies, as they’re known, are sometimes just days or hours old.
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The San Jose Police Department needs to publicly pass a requirement to keep the drone in its box until rules have been set for its use -- including transparency, outside oversight and accountability.
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Last week marked the seventh anniversary of the fatal Minneapolis bridge collapse. Check out 20 years of bridge data for each state.
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Nextdoor, the neighbor-to-neighbor social media platform, is growing fast -- and especially fast for having a yet-to-be-determined business model.
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Ohio is integrating all components of public safety intelligence into all disciplines for a safer state.
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Police departments nationwide have become increasingly concerned about electronic location issues for wireless 911 calls, prompting an FCC workshop on the technology gap.
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The current system — a mixed-mode, simulcast 800 MHz system — was first installed in 2000 and upgraded in 2009.
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It's called predictive analytic software. And it could be the start of a whole new generation of traffic safety, a new tool as revolutionary as seat belts or radar.
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Only 100 emergency call centers out of more than 6,000 across the country are capable of receiving and responding to text messages.
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Law enforcement officials look to educate the public about potential dangers that come with sharing too much information during an emergency situation.
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Police officials say the drone is far from being air-ready, pending approval from the Federal Aviation Administration and the creation of policies governing its use.
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The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department has been using surveillance devices to collect cellphone location data.
