Justice & Public Safety
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The local police department recently unveiled a new rooftop drone port at headquarters. The agency fielded approximately 10,000 drone flights in 2025 and expects about twice as many this year. -
While the city has used drones before, Chief Roderick Porter said the two new aerial vehicles the department is getting under a contract with security tech company Flock Safety are more advanced.
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More than 200 Wisconsin law enforcement agencies use license plate reading technology. The state’s capital city, however, has so far not installed such cameras even as its neighbors have done so.
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The Frederick County, Md., Police Department has launched a new online reporting system that allows residents to file non-violent, non-emergency reports from their smartphone or computer.
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The city of Terrell Hills, Texas, has a new smartphone app that allows residents to find information about city services while also serving as an alert system for emergency events and other important service changes.
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The western Massachusetts law enforcement agency is without telephone and Internet service at all of its facilities following an unknown communications issue that began over the holiday weekend, officials said.
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DFW is one of a handful of airports where the Transportation Security Administration has rolled out a new technology that matches a database of daily passenger names and birth dates with passengers on flights that day.
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A machine learning tool designed to predict where crime might occur across eight major U.S. cities is also helping to highlight areas that are not receiving adequate police protection — often poorer neighborhoods.
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State and federal judges and prosecutors are among the more than 200,000 people that had sensitive personal information, like addresses, exposed in the recent leak of state concealed handgun permit data.
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The warrant authorized a search for evidence of threatening or intimidating electronic communications at the request of detectives in Connecticut after years of alleged hateful Internet messaging targeting judges.
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The system, known as FUSUS, integrates a range of city-owned and civilian video sources into a central, cloud database. The feeds can be accessed by officers on their in-unit computers and via an app on their smartphones.
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Kern County Fire Chief Aaron Duncan demonstrated the department's new technology during a press conference attended by representatives of various county agencies and local hospitals, which also provided safety tips.
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Police in Lima, Ohio, are looking to custom-built technology to address a staffing shortage. The mobile device has cameras, sound detection, facial recognition software and license plate recognition capabilities.
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Initial reports of the exposure of personal information about concealed handguns permits was more expansive than initially thought. California Department of Justice officials now say several other data sets were exposed.
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Illinois law enforcement leaders fighting a surge in gun violence have launched a searchable database they say will allow departments to quickly access information on how illegal firearms are moving around the state.
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In a recent quarterly briefing, representatives of the Cobb County Sheriff's Office touted a series of new technology purchases they said are aimed at improving safety for deputies and inmates.
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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has discriminated against users by restricting who can view housing ads based on certain demographics. Now, the company is in the process of fixing it.
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A "virtual wall" could include motion sensors, infrared cameras, mobile towers and aerial drones, which is the type of surveillance technology already being used by the Border Patrol and other law enforcement.
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The app, developed by Amazon subsidiary Ring, allows departments to view and share information with users. More than 2,700 departments are using the service around the country as of mid-June 2022.
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Seattle has agreed to pay $1.5 million to a cannabis retailer to settle a lawsuit in which the company blasted the city for deleting text messages, a settlement among the largest lawsuit payouts by Seattle this year.
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Utilities in the state are looking to new technology to fight an old problem: wildfires. Officials hope that by better predicting weather and risk patterns they can prevent and respond to the looming threat.
