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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Private facilities can share building data with public safety responders via a common dashboard, providing key situational awareness in an emergency.
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The new SMS emergency alert notification system was integrated into a similar system built in-house by the university.
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From planning activities to grant funding, the wheels are moving to provide emergency responders with a high-speed, nationwide public safety network in the near future.
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After experiencing a homicide rate that earned it international attention last year, Chicago is upending the traditional style of policing and using social networks to rank people’s likelihood of killing and being killed.
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The expanded video infrastructure will assist with claims investigations connected to alleged staff misconduct.
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An information artist uses DNA analysis to create a 3-D portrait of what an individual looks like.
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Twitter Alerts aims to get information from vetted, credible organizations to the public during an emergency.
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Following the lead of many countries around the world, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill authorizing an $80 million system that lets people know when an earthquake is about to hit.
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Palm Beach County, Fla., is installing an emergency vehicle priority system that adjusts traffic signal times to help improve traffic flow for fire and rescue teams.
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A predictive policing tool in use in the U.S. and abroad helps law enforcement predict crime in the same way that geologists predict earthquakes.
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The Snohomish County, Wash., 911 center adopted an online training tool that can integrate multiple forms of media into a course.
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To the dismay of civil liberties activists, Oakland, Calif.'s Domain Awareness Center could unite many disparate security resources from around the city.
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A new app tested by the San Francisco Police Department will soon be available across the state of California.
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The U.S. Navy selected Modus Operandi to begin developing crowdsourcing situational awareness software that leverages data from social media.
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In the future, sensors traditionally used to detect temperature or noise could be utilized by emergency managers and first responders to enhance their response.
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Anaheim, Calif., has prepared its Community Emergency Response Team volunteers to respond to questions on social media and use it to aid situational awareness.
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The inaugural Police Innovation Conference will showcase the best in crime fighting tech.
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Texting while driving bans are commonplace, but one state court takes it a step further by holding the sender of the text partially responsible for a resulting collision.
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