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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Local governments are increasingly having to face that they are not exempt from damaging and costly ransomware attacks.
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The city council has approved the purchase of the virtual private network needed to allow dispatchers to send and receive text messages.
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Toxic fumes from Hawaii's volcanic activity have started an effort to put various streams of air quality data into a centralized location.
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The House voted 114-32 to pass the legislation with an amendment to avoid double jeopardy, meaning if you are pulled over in a county with a local ordinance you can't be fined twice.
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CivicScape, now in the pilot test phase, thinks it can answer concerns about predictive policing.
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In many cases, the footage from police cameras can be the only way to prove guilt or innocence.
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The agencies agree that a shared system would better connect the Winnebago County and serve the community to its fullest potential.
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The kiosks allow citizens to anonymously send tips by phone or by simply scanning QR codes.
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The proposed contract itself will span 18 months and afford ample time "to complete infrastructure design, hardware and software installation, uniform modifications, system testing and other program requirements that need to be met before the pilot project commences."
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At 10:30 p.m., Dallas-based AT&T tweeted, "Issue has been resolved that affected some calls to 911 from wireless customers. We apologize to those who were affected."
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The city council passed a plan this week that mandates all police be equipped with body cameras before the end of this year.
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The court's decision came just two days after the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware argued that the practice was unconstitutional and was not actually keeping the public safer.
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A new data collection tool on police use of force — developed by data scientists from Bayes Impact in collaboration with police officers — is shining a light on some of most serious issues facing our country.
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Amazon is trying to quash a search warrant for information an Echo may have recorded on First Amendment and privacy grounds.
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Refusal to release video from a recent shooting highlights how Maine’s public records law might limit the technology’s usefulness.
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The Search & Recovery SONAR is the second device of its kind in North Carolina and provides digital records of the search and any findings.
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As cars become increasingly automated, the onus might be on the manufacturer to prove it was not responsible for what happened in the event of a crash.
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Four states have signed Criminal Justice Information Services agreements with Amazon Web Services, but Tuesday's "high error rates" at Simple Storage Service appear to have left public agencies that use AWS Cloud unscathed.
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