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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"The Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles takes customer service very seriously in all aspects of service delivery, whether it's at the counter or on the Internet"
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City will also test public safety and utility applications
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Funds will be used to address increased crime and other demands for services by hiring additional public safety employees; to pay overtime to existing personnel; to provide improved investigative and communication equipment; and to expand information and intelligence systems
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Five-county, multi-agency effort model for future operations along the Texas-Mexico border
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"They wanted to prevent the users from making any changes whatsoever to the system or applications, no addition of new software or drivers, no Internet access, and complete safety from all forms of malware, worms, viruses and keyloggers"
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To monitor security video for any combination of 18 pre-defined behaviors, including fallen persons, abandoned or removed objects, facility intrusion, and lurking or erratically-behaving individuals
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States receive support for information sharing efforts
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"The photo database will continue to grow, thereby increasing the benefit to law enforcement in identifying known and unknown suspects"
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"This monitoring program is certain to prove invaluable in stemming the ever-growing problem of prescription drug abuse."
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FBI will continue to increase access between Regional Data Exchange(R-DEx) and other regional state, local and tribal law enforcement systems
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Establishes a mandatory statewide reporting system for healthcare-associated infections
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"Our next task will be to produce the detailed standards guides, called interoperability specifications that will enable the creation of a secure information superhighway for healthcare"
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"The implications for saving lives are tremendous"
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"With thousands of visitors viewing real-time updates during the Cave Creek Complex Fire, the Operation Good Neighbor response to Hurricane Katrina and the recent Brins Fire, it's clear that Arizonans are choosing to rely on this powerful tool"
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"The coordination among states, private organizations, and the Department of Justice moves us closer to making information about all registered sex offenders available to parents and concerned citizens"
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"You might as well sit in your beach chair and tell the tide not to come in"
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"The nation's lieutenant governors will hear about biosurveillance, consumer empowerment, chronic care and electronic health records"
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"This new tool strengthens America's ability to better prepare for emergencies such as manmade and natural disasters"
