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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Better public awareness leads to fewer arrests this year of GPS-monitored parolees at California State Fair, officials said.
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Pennsylvania school districts give police direct access to their video camera feeds to aid situational awareness in case of emergency.
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Lots of police departments have car- and body-mounted cameras. Now, many are considering weapon-mounted cameras as well.
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Officials from the Austin Police Department and the Houston Airport System discussed technology lessons learned during recent incidents, at the Texas Digital Government Summit.
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With San Diego named as one of the FAA’s ten cities to study drone integration, product and food deliveries could be an area of interest.
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The group known as AnonPlus defaced three New Mexico Workers Compensation websites Wednesday, marking the third such attack on state government in six days.
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Eight departments across the county partnered on a federal grant to equip about 260 officers with body-worn cameras.
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From outsourcing and transparency to the specter of artificial intelligence, organized labor has struggled to balance technology with workers’ rights.
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Despite the financial challenges faced by the city, license plate readers are one part of Rockford's efforts to better equip the police force for fighting crime.
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The international task force believes it has arrested a member of the group known as The Dark Overlord, which claims responsibility for a number of high-profile attacks on U.S. institutions and companies dating back to 2016.
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Federal authorities arrested one man they allege was behind the cyberattack that took down the city’s website last August.
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Officials in four eastern-central Pennsylvania counties have long been concerned that outdated Google mapping data could impact first responders — but now, an update may be on the way.
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Dozens of surveillance cameras throughout the city have been opened to the public in the hopes that fresh eyes will spot crimes in progress. But civil rights advocates see a problem: racial profiling.
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Tuscarawas County, Ohio’s $11.6 million overhaul is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
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Fire Chief Darin White said his department has temporarily halted the inspections of small business, restaurants and apartment buildings while a new tracking system is put in place.
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The city of Riverside has seen several attacks against its IT infrastructure in recent weeks. Officials are still trying to piece together the extent of the attack.
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My Law is a cloud-based service that can be accessed from a computer or handheld device to help citizens present their own court cases as well as have access to statuses, evidence, case law and messaging.
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Hawaii is bracing for the potential that the Kilauea volcano could explode this week, putting pressure on state IT personnel to keep the lines of communication operational.
