Justice & Public Safety
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Corrections officers spend a disproportionate amount of time on administrative tasks rather than helping prisoners in ways that improve outcomes. AI is one tool to help, but it must be implemented thoughtfully. -
The White House is expected to give the New York Police Department the authority to ground unauthorized drones around major events. The department also plans to roll out a new 311 dispatch system.
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The county's Department of Public Safety Communications and Emergency Management upgraded its computer-aided dispatching system to one that is cloud-based and can work more easily with neighboring agencies.
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FBI discourages data users from ranking agencies and using the data as a measurement of law enforcement effectiveness.
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Undercover youth accounts receive sexual solicitations from adults.
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"The King County Clerk's office worked hand-in-hand with multiple parties to replace the paper-based process and enhance justice."
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"First responders should be able to talk to each other on demand to support critical incident response, and I am dedicated to ensuring our state makes that happen."
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"These programs demonstrate that government on all levels can achieve scalable solutions to pressing global issues."
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Oct. 15-19 in Arizona and Oregon, and the U.S. territory of Guam; participants from all levels of government, international partners and the private sector in a full-scale, simulated response to radiological dispersal device attacks.
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"The federal government has a national plan in place for a flu epidemic. But that plan will be useless unless states and local communities are ready and able to handle a public health emergency on the ground."
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"This is part of an ongoing and integrated security project that will make policing more effective throughout our city, indoors and out."
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"They have created an important and informative publication and are committed to providing practical solutions to all those who serve the public in times of immense need."
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"Mayor Richard M. Daley has had, for many years, a grand plan to incorporate cameras from public entities and private-sector businesses into a single unified system allowing first responders access to real time visual data."
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GPS monitoring will be expanded to the highest-risk offenders using the governor's emergency fund.
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Text messaging system "worked like a charm."
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New Jersey drivers are the worst offenders, using their hand-held phones 43 percent of the time, when compared to Connecticut and New York drivers.
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Through firefighter training, public fire-safety education and research, the USFA cut fire-related deaths in half by 1998.
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New police officers, E-911 system upgrades among priorities, says Mayor Begich.
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"TWIC is one of the world's most advanced interoperable biometric systems and has a lot of moving pieces. We are now seeing those pieces come together."
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Grant rules also require that applications represent a multi-jurisdictional, regional group of public safety agencies.
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