Justice and Public Safety

The move provides delivery workers with immediate access to emergency dispatchers with tools already used by public agencies. RapidSOS hopes to win other such deals within the gig economy as it continues to grow.

The Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Office went live with an online reporting system for non-emergency calls. The office has had to keep up with the demands of a growing population and limited staff.

The Patrolfinder software, from Schenectady-based Transfinder, is giving officers in the field and at the station real-time data about calls for service and emergency calls, as well as the locations of other officers.

The Yolo Superior Court has started to send text messages regarding court dates, continuances and cancellations through their mobile smartphone. The notifications are only available to those involved in the proceedings.

The Honolulu Fire Department was forced to delay the helicopter rescue of a hiker when a rogue drone interfered with the emergency operation. Officials were able to locate the operator and remove the device from the airspace.

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.

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.

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.

After a cyber attack forced Freehold hospital administrators to halt new patient admissions, CentraState Medical Center officials were advising that patients seek care elsewhere due to the volume of patients in the emergency room.

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.

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.

As chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Sen. Sherrod Brown sounded the alarm on cryptocurrency more than a year before the meltdown of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.

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.

A new Senate committee report suggests allocating more money to campus security technology, a public awareness campaign for the state's anonymous reporting system, and training more school marshals to prevent shootings.

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).

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.

A Wisconsin school district has contracted with Evolv Technology to install five dual-lane, walkthrough metal detectors at a handful of schools, costing the district $508,262 over the next four years.

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.