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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Video footage can help unravel an event and catch the perpetrators, but some say the presence of cameras could deter acts of violence.
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California's considering a bill to create a statewide system to alert people when earthquakes are coming. Scientists say the East Coast has just as much to gain from it as the Golden State.
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Other agencies want to buy Longboat Key, Fl.’s award-winning fire application, but can the city venture outside of its core business to sell its cloud-hosted software?
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Technology can be critical to emergency response and recovery efforts.
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After human bones and skulls of unidentified individuals undergo CT scans, forensic artists use imaging software to re-create what a person may have looked like.
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Analytics to solve civic problems is not -- in its simplest form -- anything new.
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The metro government's new pilot program will design tools, pilot innovations and test system reforms to make the criminal justice system run more efficiently and fairly, and be more cost-effective.
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A statewide automated external defibrillator system in Maryland requires program sites to register the devices, increasing the likelihood that they can be accessed quickly when needed.
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Law enforcement in Montana must now get a warrant before using information like cell phone location data to track individuals.
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A new partnership will help San Francisco utilize shared resources in the event of an emergency.
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At Chicago's Safer Communities hackathon, developers were tasked with making public safety apps more accessible via mobile devices.
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Fusion centers’ effectiveness and legality has been questioned ever since they were created in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Boynton Beach, Fla., Police Department offers virtual chats with the chief, ride-alongs via Twitter, and now, an app created by a former police officer.
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The New York Police Department runs photos from both Instagram and Facebook through facial recognition software to track down criminals.
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A unique approach to crime analysis may allow police officers to predict illegal activity.
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Students at the Oklahoma State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering designed preliminary storm drones that could someday gather data that saves lives.
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The Oklahoma tornado highlights the need for multi-faceted disaster preparedness, and that includes personal technology.
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To help restore information and technology systems in the event of a city emergency, the city is considering switching from a private data center located 3,000 miles away to a state-run facility 100 miles away.
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