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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The purchase will equip 600 officers, making the police department the largest user of these particular cameras in the country.
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This legislation bans government agencies from using drones with cameras or audio recorders on them -- unless they have a warrant, in which case it allows police forces to use them -- secretly even -- for up to half a year.
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New legislation would allow three Connecticut towns to consolidate their 911 dispatch centers.
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Building 21st-century cities means taking the long view.
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A warning signal, even a few seconds in advance, could be plugged into automated systems that trigger safety mechanisms such as stopping a train to avoid a derailment.
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Researchers discovered that the ground near Bayou Corne, La., began shifting at least a month before the sinkhole formed — as much as 10 inches toward where the sinkhole started.
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Muddled legislation and preemptive strikes at imagined dangers.
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The new $500,000 radar units won’t likely be on display until later this year.
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Shooting response deemed successful, but with many lessons learned.
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Alleged child abusers sometimes have content on a social media website that indicates a threat to a child.
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FirstNet, the proposed national broadband public safety network, is big, expensive and complicated. Here are a few basic things you need to know.
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Pittsburgh and other cities are testing a new app that places license plate recognition technology on smartphones.
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Philadelphia's FastFWD urban accelerator hopes to boost public safety with startup ingenuity and collaboration.
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Connecticut's 100 call centers are expensive and redundant.
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Officials in Maryland and Pennsylvania are looking to technology to reduce contraband in prisons and keep inmates from illegally receiving unemployment checks.
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With a number of announcements and a new website this week, the $7 billion First Responder Network Authority appears to be in first gear moving forward to accomplish its mission of creating a nationwide public safety broadband network.
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Authorities are hunting for Malaysia Flight 370 almost the same way we hunted for Amelia Earhart’s plane.
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Officers are testing cameras from both Taser Int. and Coban Tech., and will select a device by sometime this summer.
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