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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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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The Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET) and the state Department of Transportation (PennDOT) integrated their facial recognition systems, providing a more comprehensive resource for criminal investigations.
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The explosion of big data provides a vast new resource that can transform organizations, helping them build smarter systems that drive economic growth, sustainable development and societal progress.
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Revisiting shared unemployment insurance systems; New York City surveillance ‘dashboard’; NACo app store.
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Three Texas universities are promoting a Facebook-integrated app that the Texas Department of Transportation created to cut down on drunk driving accidents.
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For local governments drowning in data, analytics offers a way to make sense of it all.
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The Madison, Wis., Police Department takes a CSI approach to extracting evidence from mobile devices.
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First responders can now access critical data in the field as well as link back to central command, and Google Glass lets them do it hands-free.
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The deployment of Danville’s microwave emergency responder network satisfied the FCC’s narrowbanding mandate.
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Roadside wildlife detection systems use radar and lasers to save wild animals and protect drivers who might cross their paths.
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Winners of 2013 Best of California awards share best practices that have been crucial to their success.
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States are vying for the chance to be one of six FAA test sites to integrate drones into the national airspace.
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Cellular-free mobile phone service and Wi-Fi boosters are part of the next generation of technologies that could make communication during disasters easier.
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Google’s Crisis Response product manager provides insight into the best ways to share emergency information online and how search engines can utilize it.
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ASK DC allows victims of sexual assault and dating violence to report incidents and find available community resources.
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The Dayton, Ohio Police Department is using technology from a local company to lure, then catch, electronics thieves.
