Justice and Public Safety

The FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report shows that emerging technologies are shaping cyber theft, with digital fraud and related losses reaching new highs in 2025, topping more than $21 billion forfeited.

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.

The deal provides Motorola Solutions with HyperYou’s agentic AI for handling nonemergency calls, as well as real-time language translation. The general idea is that AI can help alleviate call center staffing shortages.

Statewide, more than 180 law enforcement agencies ― nearly a third of all agencies in Michigan ― now use Flock Safety technology, according to data compiled by the company.

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.

Letters began going out in late March to people potentially impacted by a breach of Syracuse Police Department digital files discovered in 2025. It’s unclear what data was compromised.

Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, says weapons detection systems are useful given the right policies overseeing them and a campus culture that's mindful about safety.

The debate over the cameras, the surveillance infrastructure they create and who has access to the data has intensified since the major federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota this year.

Starting April 13, a town in Connecticut will use cameras on school buses to automatically issue fines to drivers for illegally passing stopped school buses. A warning period resulted in nearly 300 warnings to drivers.

A pilot program launching at Chillicothe Correctional Institution in Ohio brings iPad-based technical education to incarcerated residents through video instruction and training on industry-specific software.

The incident is affecting the towns of Pepperell, Dunstable, Townsend and Ashby. It has taken down emergency and business phone lines for police, fire, and emergency medical services departments, but not 911.

The towers from General Dynamics have been deployed along the U.S.–Mexico border, and they use a combination of cameras and radar, as well as training based on years of earlier footage.

The sheriff’s office has turned off an estimated 200 automated license plate readers, indicating the devices which are part of most patrol cars do not comply with the new state Driver Privacy Act.

Born from the chaos of 9/11, FirstNet provides a mobile phone network designed for public safety professionals. The new deal comes as the U.S. Congress considers a 10-year reauthorization of FirstNet.

A new AI tool is being deployed in California cities, offering a software platform that ingests large volumes of digital evidence in order to make it searchable and easier to sift through for detectives.

Improper use of artificial intelligence to write and research legal briefs has led to errors in four criminal cases in Nevada County, prosecutors admitted in court documents.

Law enforcement has invested time and money in technologies like digital forensics and drones, but using analytics to quantify community feedback could help with recruitment, retention and public trust.

The county’s Board of Commissioners approved a one-year pact that will bring on a system to automatically record and transcribe emergency calls. Better professional development is one goal.