Justice & Public Safety
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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. -
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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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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At a recent workshop, state officials laid out the current state of the early warning system and promoted the idea of building partnerships between public and private agencies, but emergency officials also are taking their funding plea to the public.
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Getting a firm handle on the factors that contributed to the slide will require extensive field investigations, sampling and drilling.
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The county’s website already has the capability of sending text messages out to select groups, and that could be utilized, according to administrator Joe Murray.
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The so-called "smart" munitions use a Global Positioning System to guide themselves directly onto targets.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles flying over pipelines while outfitted with special sensors could detect leaks quickly. And that's not the only potential application.
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As governments learn to do new things with their data, new solutions to old problems are found -- and the public wonders if having a Big Brother might not be entirely a bad thing.
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Florida State University is a leader in the “volunteer operations support team” concept, in which volunteers monitor the flood of amateur reporting via social media and gather information for analysis and dissemination.
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The first text message to 911 in the county is an example of what not to do.
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Few saw it coming, but as text standoff negotiations become more frequent, law enforcement experts say special training is warranted.
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All four major cell carriers have adopted text-to-911, but not all counties have adopted the imperfect technology -- and getting local governments to adopt it will be among the most difficult upcoming challenges.
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Madison County, Ind., is offering a free text alert service to help local residents stay notified and safe as severe weather approaches.
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Adrian Liggins, 19, is in jail on fraud charges and police are deciding whether to charge the 18-year-old woman who bit on the social media offer.
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Professor Timothy O’Neill will focus on the intersection of technology and a person’s Fourth Amendment rights during a year-long investigation.
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Texting to 911 is available through Verizon Wireless, and the FCC wants all other wireless carriers to provide the service by the end of this year as part of a coordinated statewide approach to public safety.
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The problem has also drawn more attention to an immigration court system that immigration attorneys and advocates call woefully underfunded.
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The case's judge opposed the lawyers' attempt to get GPS evidence from a cab's credit card machine thrown out, claiming “the defendants had no objectively reasonable expectation of privacy."
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While companies battle to gain a foothold in the drone industry, UNLV's engineering college is working to prepare a workforce for the drone industry.
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The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been baffling, and many are beginning to realize what really goes on behind the scenes isn't quite what we expected.
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