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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Within the first decade of commercial use, the U.S. drone sector is expected to create more than 100,000 jobs and have an $83 billion economic impact.
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API allows developers to write software based on the Animetrics' facial recognition technology.
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The building design factors in security and sustainable-building features, such as vehicle barriers around the building, and bullet-proof walls and windows.
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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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