Justice and Public Safety

In response to several mass shootings, the company announced that it was working on drones armed with Tasers to stop shooters. Now that work is paused after most of the company's ethics board resigned in protest.

The Springfield, Ohio, Police Division will receive more than $300,000 from the Ohio Violent Crime Reduction Grant Program that will go to purchase dozens of surveillance cameras and other technology.

Wisconsin’s Chippewa Falls Police made the jump to hybrid patrol vehicles late last year and has seen a drastic reduction in spending on fuel. Four of the five squads predominantly driven by officers are now hybrids.

The agency is working with a popular freelancing website to host a competition to work in augmented and virtual reality, Internet of Things sensors and more into modern, virtual command centers for emergency response.

The state's highest court has now remanded a civil lawsuit, centering around whether municipalities have the right to fly a drone over someone's property, back to the state's Court of Appeals.

Flush with millions of federal dollars — mostly from a bill aimed at helping states balance budgets gutted by the coronavirus-induced recession — Baton Rouge law enforcement agencies are shelling out for new technology.

Hamilton is the latest jurisdiction in Butler County, Ohio, to purchase the cameras, recently approving the purchase of 100 cameras at a cost of $365,326, with annual payments of $72,515 over the next five years.

Police in Manchester, N.H., are building a system that would allow residents to funnel their surveillance camera footage directly to the department. The city’s 285 security cameras will also be added to the system.

The company, led by a former product manager for Apple and Groupon, wants to help agencies — and even other gov tech companies — automate workflows and integrate data. AI4Govt has already won a contract in Mobile, Ala.

The alerts, which notify the public about kidnapped children and are primarily sent as notifications on mobile phones, will now also appear on people’s Instagram feeds as part of a nationwide rollout.

The new cameras are provided by a company called Utility Inc., which employs its patented Eos by Utility™ body-worn camera technology as well as the company's Rocket by Utility™ in-car video system.

In an effort to reduce deaths at the Cobb County, Ga., jail, Sheriff Craig Owens on Tuesday rolled out a new system of medical monitoring wristbands that track inmates' location and heart rate.

By using software from Zencity to collect feedback from residents on community concerns as well as trust in law enforcement, the San Diego Police Department is improving how they patrol the city.

The rollout of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's office's new property crimes unit, which includes a range of policing technology to assist with investigations, has raised privacy concerns among residents.

The Denver Medical Examiner has received a federal grant to buy an in-house rapid DNA processor — technology that can produce genetic-test results in a matter of hours, expediting the identification of victims.

Emotions ran high as Durham police briefed the Durham City Council on plans to move ahead with a controversial gunshot detection program that uses audio sensors to pinpoint the location of possible gunfire.

The Washington Parish Sheriff's Office will equip its deputies with body cameras, a move the sheriff says is designed to increase transparency, joining a growing number of agencies nationwide that are doing the same.

The two gov tech companies said a new deal would help unify record management with other tasks for first responders. The move is among the latest evidence of the ongoing digital shift in public safety.