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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The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles puts traffic accident reports online, plans detailed incident data beginning in 2012.
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It’s time to build a national public safety network.
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A decade after the 9/11 attacks, strides have been made in regional public safety interoperability, but a nationwide system is still lacking.
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Cellular network congestion following the earthquake validates the need for a national broadband network, officials say.
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Miami-Dade County, Fla., launches a new Web tool to calculate hurricane-related storm surge levels in the county’s three evacuation zones.
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The number of inmates in California state prisons may soon be dropping, but tech upgrades to keep up with the changes are on the rise at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and IBM say new analytics software will be of use to city planners and emergency responders.
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Widespread use of social media in earthquake’s aftermath is the latest example of how Web 2.0 technology has changed emergency communication.
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A California data sharing system makes catching the bad guys easier.
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The Missouri State Teachers Association is concerned about portion of new law that will restrict nonpublic usage of social media between students and teachers.
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Santa Cruz, Calif., Police Department uses algorithm to determine crime hot spots to assist with predictive policing.
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Donated 3-D scanners will give law enforcement the ability to collect millions of data points at a crime scene or car crash.
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will be upgrading existing video surveillance cameras for 358 buses, including adding the ability to have real-time monitoring.
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Emergency managers are increasingly tapping social media to connect with communities.
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The FCC deadline to convert LMR functionality to narrowbanding is quickly approaching, and it’s estimated that only one-third of the nation’s jurisdictions have converted.
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Live test of system infrastructure and concepts of operation to run through January 2012.
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Next-generation 911 would allow people to submit voice, text, data, photos and video over an IP-based network to emergency call centers.
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The websites of rural law enforcement agencies across the country were hacked on Aug. 6 and 10 GB of sensitive data was posted online.
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