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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While federal authorities focus their attention on several attacks on the Ohio town, a number of other high-profile attacks have made headlines in recent months.
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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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As more and more states use “big data” for everything from catching fraudsters to reducing heath care costs, some highway patrols are tapping it to predict where serious or fatal traffic accidents are likely to take place so they can try to prevent them.
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The Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA WX) Radar Project would provide a more accurate picture of the approach of threatening weather.
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The laws about public records differ from one government to the next and are further complicated by some technologies, like police body cameras.
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Methods for determining the cases where agencies can make corrective decisions, or might need a warrant, have yet to be ironed out completely.
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In-person visits between family members and inmates are starting to make a comeback in some jails, bucking the trend toward long-distance, video-call visitation.
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The bill would require law enforcement agencies to report crime statistics to state police.
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Proponents of police body cameras in Maine and across the country have argued for years that the cameras can enhance transparency and improve community trust.
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Columbus County Sgt. Rich Weiner said he isn't sure how data from the ankle bracelet are collected and that the GPS data may only be recorded every few hours.
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The DOT's Division of Aviation recently collaborated with about 50 state and local government agencies and researchers during a workshop about the use of drones in crisis situations.
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The company wants to apply artificial intelligence to body cameras.
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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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The bill in question will stop the police department in its tracks.
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This adds another voice to the diverse chorus calling for wider use of cop cameras in local communities.
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A social media campaign to find a Megan's Law offender and his girlfriend led to a deluge of tips.
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Over the next few years, the Regional Emergency Communications Center plans to spend millions of dollars on improvements to its office space and technology.
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