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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Louisiana-based Cellcontrol is marketing a digital lockdown on driver texting.
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Tweets can be monitored in real time, multiple searches can be done simultaneously and they can be narrowed down to a specific-mile radius.
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In nearly 5,000 pages of heavily redacted documents, FBI censors blotted out the types and names of wireless interceptors the agency purchases, how much it spends on them, and the vendors who supply the technology.
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Agents are drowning in a flood of meaningless data, masking alarms that could signal real danger.
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Lawmakers want to create an electronic system to monitor who is being prescribed potentially addictive drugs, but critics are concerned with privacy risks.
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Mobile GPS- and voice-enabled alarms for schools, public officials and high-risk individuals will be provided free of charge.
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Robots can do lots of things, but they're still not great at solving problems. But new research from MIT could improve this in robots, especially for search and rescue.
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Divorced and delinquent parents have called in personally after their names, photographs and arrearage amounts were posted for the world to see.
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The system will provide five to 20 minutes of additional early warning when tornadoes, flash floods, hailstorms or severe thunderstorms rake the region.
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Facial recognition -- used by Facebook, Google Plus and law enforcement -- could be coming to an airport near you.
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The FCC wants all text message providers to support emergency texts to 911 by the end of the year. But call center managers have concerns.
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Emergency management officials no longer hold news conferences; they can send information out immediately on Twitter and Facebook.
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While there are valid uses of surveillance technology, some say it has advanced much faster than regulation of it.
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The department obtained two pairs of Google Glass in December and has been "evaluating these devices in an attempt to determine any possible useful applications."
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Comparing the rash of smartphone thefts to a quickly spreading disease, California Democratic lawmakers are introducing a bill that would force manufacturers to install anti-theft applications and devices.
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So far, the right technology solutions have been "elusive."
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Alabama Sen. Roger Bedford, D-Russellville, is sponsoring legislation that would ban the use of drones from bothering those engaged in legal hunting and fishing activities.
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Ohio lawmakers have not empowered cities to determine guilt or innocence in administrative hearings involving civil violations of traffic laws.
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