Justice & Public Safety
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The app is aimed at providing residents and visitors of the county with quick information, jail info, mental health resources and more. It also offers users the ability to submit tips directly to authorities. -
Windsor, Conn., is turning off cameras that take photos of license plates, citing a list of concerns that includes federal agencies previously accessing the data in an effort to enforce immigration laws.
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A bipartisan, two-bill package would define the systems and set limits on how they collect, store and share data. The information could only be kept 14 days in most cases and its use would be prescribed.
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Creation of these Technology Centers will provide state and local agencies with unprecedented support to which few agencies would otherwise have access.
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Grants enable local fire departments and emergency medical services organizations to purchase or receive training, conduct first responder health and safety programs, and buy equipment and response vehicles.
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During Advertising Week 2007 new TV, radio, and print PSAs encourage all wireless subscribers to aid in the search for abducted children.
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Students around the U.S. will be asked to submit their successful models of youth engagement in natural disaster preparation and relief projects.
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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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