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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Positive pressure ventilation could make NYFD rescue teams more effective.
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Invoking a law written before the Internet became widely accessible that pertains to common carriers -- such as the use of a telephone to call a bookie and place a bet.
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Other federal agencies can now choose to sign the same agreement if it meets their needs because it resolves the legal concerns for federal agencies.
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Attorneys general seek the closure of Craigslist's "erotic services" section.
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"Demanding that a private-sector Internet service provider block access to Web sites is not a proper function of our state government."
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"I am getting phenomenal feedback from residents, at community meetings, who tell me that they've seen great changes in Newark," said Newark's Police Director Garry F. McCarthy.
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The NYPD's addition of 40 Nissan Altima Hybrids brings its number of hybrid vehicles to more than 100.
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Utah deploys a new crime analytics tool that's being tested in more than 25 law enforcement agencies.
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The FBI is searching for a malicious hacker who infiltrated the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program and is threatening to sell medical information to the highest bidder.
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Philip Gabriel Pettersson indicted on charges including stealing source code of Cisco's Internetworking Operating System.
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New York City's unified call taking program combines the police and fire 911 call taking and dispatch systems.
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Health cost comparisons, thermal imagers for airport, online tracking of public records requests.
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Compatibility assessment program will make radio testing data available on the Web.
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"Twenty years ago no one would have imagined that hackers could use inexpensive, store-bought equipment to shut down governments in other nations."
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A county court allowed, as evidence, GPS readings which showed the defendant drove slowly across the parking lot of a store on the evening it was burglarized.
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Craig Fugate, who hails from state and local government, takes top post at FEMA.
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Swine flu exposed strengths and weaknesses of governments' continuity of operations plans, according to the Telework Exchange.
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Gives illegal downloaders three warnings and then pulls the Internet plug for up to a year.
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