Justice & Public Safety
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Local law enforcement praises the devices, hundreds of which are in place, for helping solve crimes. Privacy and surveillance concerns, however, persist among critics and industry watchers. -
Through electronic queueing and a pilot of drive-through court services, the governments hope to handle a rise in court transactions driven largely by an increase in traffic violations around school buses.
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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.
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Following the release of the officer's name they believed to have fatally shot teenager Michael Brown, one of Anonymous' Twitter accounts was taken down.
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Care Trak uses radio telemetry to locate someone wearing an ankle or wrist bracelet linked to the system.
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In the hours after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, Anonymous urged residents to the streets.
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Computer upgrades at Limestone and Morgan county facilities are expected to improve response times and record-keeping.
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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.
