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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A new report presents a series of recommendations and plans to fight electronic attacks on critical information infrastructure.
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A new report from the General Accounting Office identified more than 50 entities involved in protecting information infrastructure, but problems remain.
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The Pentagon has agreed to a plan to free up much-needed spectrum.
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Securing electronic systems just as important as securing physical locations.
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Corporations are seeking protection from sharing information with the government, but critics say that protection is too big of a loophole.
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The House and Senate will be the scene of significant battles over the proposed Homeland Security Department, though some say the department will ultimately be created.
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A report from the National Conference of State Legislatures urges more study of issues related to homeland security.
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The civil-rights group is mounting an unusual challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, arguing that the DMCA is preventing research into Internet filtering software.
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The unmanned, remote-controlled aircraft could provide a new platform for wireless data services and communications.
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The agreement is the first step in building an Interstate Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
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The Web-based system will replace a mainframe system and will help track water supply and transport.
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The chairman of the Senate's Appropriations Committee is putting the brakes on the Homeland Security legislation.
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According to the man, the FBI couldn't respond quickly enough with agents who knew the Internet well enough to use the site as a disinformation and surveillance tool.
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Hackers have a duty to find vulnerabilities in software.
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The service will notify GM operators of auto crashes and allow 911 dispatchers to be connected to crash victims.
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Both the city and the state lost $1.6 billion during fiscal year 2002.
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Local police departments, facing funding problems and jurisdictional issues, are slow to respond to identity theft, according to the GAO.
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With the help of this statewide warning system, two teenage girls' lives were saved and their perpetrator caught within 12 hours.
