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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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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Tech giants including Apple, Facebook and Google are in the facial-recognition business, but the founders of this startup say their security focus and their patent-pending software should provide a lucrative niche.
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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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Mobile platforms and digital technology are quickly replacing paper, but emergency managers still need to stay sharp.
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The city's Department of Technology is working with police to try to recover the files.
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The city cited a Jan. 13 incident that endangered firefighters as an example of consequences of faulty computer-aided dispatch and records management software.
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The state has clarified that although it has issued the RFP, that does not mean it has already decided to “opt out” of FirstNet’s nationwide public-safety network.
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In the Friday judgment, Judge Elaine Kaplan ruled in favor of the First Responder Network Authority, granting it the ability to move forward with the procurement process.
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911 emergency responsive systems have been glitching all over the country recently which has brought serious attention to updating these systems.
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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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Almost all of the residents who signed up for the county's initial alert system checked a box stating they didn't want their information shared with a third party, which would apparently include their own municipality.
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