Justice & Public Safety
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The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on Monday arrested the man after he reportedly stole a vehicle from a business in east Fort Collins, set it on fire and damaged nearby agricultural land. -
The City Council signed off on directing roughly $360,000 in state funds to the police department. Of that, more than $43,000 is earmarked for software that will let police “obtain and retain” digital evidence.
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County commissioners will consider spending more than $3.2 million over 10 years to replace body-worn and in-car sheriff’s office cameras. Software, data storage and accessories would be included.
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Following the release of a report from the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation about police technology risks, experts in the space shared insights into what is hype and reality with new policing tools.
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The Chattanooga Police Department plans to apply for a more than $1.6 million grant from the state, which would come from a pot of funding recently established to curtail violent crime and strengthen public safety.
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The newly installed ShotSpotter system did not alert on a drive-by shooting that put five people in the hospital on New Year’s Day, revealing limitations of the gunfire detection software being piloted in the Bull City.
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The third-party vendor for the county’s online record management system alerted officials Monday that it detected potentially malicious files and would be shutting down its servers to find the source of the problem.
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South Orange will not install facial recognition software when it upgrades street security cameras after questions were raised about whether the tech is unreliable and prone toward misidentifying people of color.
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Facial recognition technology has allowed police departments across the U.S. to compare the faces of criminal suspects against other existing photos, but the tech has also proven controversial.
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The Oxford Borough Police Department has announced it was awarded a $77,271 grant through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency Local Law Enforcement Support Grant Program (LLE).
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The 6.4 magnitude earthquake along the Northern California coast earlier this week prompted the MyShake early warning system to sound a warning alert for some 271,000 people across the Bay Area.
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A TikTok ban on state-issued devices is already in place in most areas of state government, and Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday he will introduce a bill next month to include the ban for all entities related to the state.
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News out of San Francisco caught many off guard recently as officials considered allowing the use of weaponized robots controlled by law enforcement officers. The city quickly dropped those plans after public outcry.
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice put the brakes on an effort to ban TikTok on state-issued devices Monday, saying the state's current cybersecurity measures already block the social media app on state networks.
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More Dayton-area cities have installed new automated license plate reading devices in the past several months and at least one other local police department said it wants to add them next year.
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On the heels of a week-long civil trial surrounding the data collection practices of the Maine State Police, officials will seek an outside review into whether its intelligence unit is violating federal privacy laws.
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After stepping away from a decade of public safety technology leadership, Davis will write about challenges in law enforcement while eyeing a return to the industry. He describes what the public safety future might hold.
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Houston County commissioners voted to move forward on a four-year agreement with Flock Safety. District Attorney William Kendall said the photos will only be used for active investigations and certain emergency situations.
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Despite using facial recognition technology to identify criminal suspects nearly 2,000 times last year, findings from the LAPD inspector general's office show that the department has no way to track the technology’s outcomes or effectiveness.
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Rave Mobile Safety offers such services as incident alerts and emergency preparation, and will boost Motorola’s own public safety tech offerings. Rave is used by governments, schools and other public agencies.
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Cobb commissioners agreed to allow the county police to enter a three-year contract with Clearview AI — a company that has come under fire for data privacy — to utilize its face recognition software.
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