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The town Select Board unanimously approved appropriating the funds to outfit 50 police officers with the cameras and software. The cost also includes record retention equipment. -
Louisiana’s most populous city is the latest government to have an AI agent answer 311 calls instead of a human. The shift will happen in coming months; the AI has been trained on three years of 311 calls.
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Modern solutions can liberate local government clerks from hours of transcribing to compile meeting minutes. One such tool, from HeyGov, generates drafts from digital files, which can then be fine-tuned.
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After a hiatus that spanned two weeks, California has resumed initial applications for unemployment benefits, now with a new online identity verification system aimed at speeding up claims processing.
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Plus, major cities deploy virtual town halls over the summer amid pandemic, the government transparency organization Sunlight Foundation closes, and Denver’s Peak Academy pivots to a broader mission.
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The third Internet of Things Civic Hackathon, at the new Indiana IoT Lab in Fishers, brought together around 600 developers and first responders to create technology solutions for public safety.
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