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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Presentation abstracts must be submitted by December 4, 2004
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Updated and converted into a Web-based course
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Requests that states receive at least 90 percent of the previous year's first responder allocation in each of the next two years
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CIOs and IT departments may have larger roles to play when dealing with disaster management.
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DEAS will supplement the existing Emergency Alert System
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CIOs must measure performance now that results count.
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New system to assist officials with criminal investigations and enhance prison security to be piloted in January 2005
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Police department selects single vendor for testing
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Legislation fails to set a firm date when TV stations must vacate certain public safety spectrum
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Shares techniques using digital video surveillance and learns how to track e-mail
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Officers save time by scanning drivers' licenses and printing tickets in pilot project
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Grid computing initiative to benefit a variety of applications.
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"The installation of the fire dispatch and records management system is the beginning of an enterprise-wide public safety automation system for the city's police and fire departments"
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'The Illinois State Weapons of Mass Destruction Teams won the 2004 Mitretek Innovations Award because of their strong, well-led integration of skills and capabilities to provide effective statewide protection and response to emergencies in real time. Other states can and should replicate this program.'
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'During the G8 Summit, multi-agency rapid response teams played a key role in assuring that potential threats or incidents were addressed quickly and efficiently. With the establishment of these CTR Teams, we've taken this successful concept a step further to help deter terrorist attacks.' -- Bill Hitchens
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'This standard will help improve our long-term security by facilitating the interchange of digitally stored photographs, regardless of what equipment is used to take or to display the images.' -- Charles McQueary
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'Without these resources, we will not be able to fully implement our plan to both protect Hoosiers and respond quickly and appropriately if an emergency situation occurs.' -- Joe Kernan
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