Justice & Public Safety
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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. -
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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The county board approved a renewal of a Kane County Sheriff’s Office contract that includes 25 license plate reader cameras. Undersheriff Amy Johnson said the devices help “a tremendous amount."
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The former director of information technology for a non-profit organ and tissue donation center has entered a guilty plea to intruding into her former employer's computer network.
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A backhoe, stolen from a construction site, was tracked to the bow of a ship headed for South America.
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Arkansas CTO Claire Bailey gets public safety agencies and jurisdictions on the same wavelength.
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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.
