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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Using a $600,000 grant, the Oyez Project will digitize legal materials of State Supreme and Federal Appellate Courts.
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Some in law enforcement see legislation that allows police to look through cellphones without warrants as helpful in maximizing investigations, while others argue there are more pressing issues to attend to post-collision.
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Within 72 hours of an emergency or natural disaster, this new platform can be used to provide broadband coverage and communications services to first responders.
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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.
