Justice and Public Safety

It has been nearly three weeks since an unexplained security incident shuttered Kansas’ online court system, blocking public and internal access to an untold number of court cases and records.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced $75 million in funding to combat the spike in hate speech and crime in the city. Funds will be used to provide new police technology and social media analysis, and more.

Baltimore police arrested suspects in a shooting outside Carver Vocational Technical High School in Baltimore with help from video surveillance footage. ShotSpotter initially alerted police to eight firearm discharges.

The Kanawha County Commission approved an almost $3 million purchase of body cameras, Tasers and license plate readers for the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office during its meeting late last week.

A drone was used by Harrisburg police to track down a man suspected of breaking the windows of several patrol vehicles at a city facility and assaulting an officer. A female accomplice was arrested at the scene.

That’s the question at the heart of the deployment of a new case management system by the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office. The agency’s CIO and an exec from Publicis Sapient talk about what is driving use of this new tool.

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Evolv Technologies, which has sold security scanners to Atlanta-area school districts, exaggerated in marketing materials what its products can do.

Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero said the remote hearings courts were forced to conduct during the pandemic turned out to be beneficial for many even when they were no longer needed to protect their health.

Cruise says it is pausing its entire driverless operations after California regulators suspended the autonomous vehicle company earlier this week from commercially deploying its robotaxis.

The Los Angeles Police Department is considering changing department policy to increase random reviews of body camera recordings that don't involve arrests or the use of force, according to Chief Michel Moore.

Massachusetts demolished its staffed toll plazas in 2016, replacing them with electronic tolling arches, where cameras read license plates as vehicles speed by and drivers are automatically billed.

Emergency responders in one Washington county have been dispatched to four false alarms in the past couple of weeks, thanks to the new car crash detection feature on iPhone 14s and 15s and the latest Apple Watches.

The telecommunications company will be donating funds to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office to combat the ongoing incidents of copper theft. The grant will cover the purchase of new technology to assist deputies with the effort.

Washington announced this week it has joined dozens of other states to sue Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, accusing the social media giant of fueling a nationwide youth mental health crisis.

The Nampa City Council authorized the department to buy nearly $79,000 worth of technology from Cellebrite, a company that sells tools to unlock phones and obtain their data for police and government agencies.

The Kendall County Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved a contract for the purchase of body cameras, a technology rapidly gaining prominence in the law enforcement world.

Deputies in the New Mexico county will soon have access to license plate recognition technology to monitor vehicles on roadways. Critics have raised concerns about the potential for abuse and mass surveillance.

Ohio's TALEN pilot program aims to create a statewide real-time crime center to create a network of thousands of public and private cameras. Records reveal several obstacles have stalled the project.