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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Now that 170,000 paper inmate files have been scanned into the Strategic Offender Management System, most tasks associated with paper are eliminated.
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Because state governments give less funding to corrections each year, IT support at prisons lacking -- and uptime with telemedicine is crucial, which is why the state's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services chose a cloud-based system.
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Private Facebook and other social media accounts are becoming increasingly off-limits to employers seeking information about current and prospective employees.
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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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