Digital Government
DHS buys radios for search and rescue
The programmable devices will use the Project 25 standard for wireless communications.
Digital Government
Police list info-sharing suggestions
The International Association of Chiefs of Police issued 28 recommendations.
Digital Government
Official calls for sensible tech use
As technology advances at an exponential rate, police and homeland security officials must deal with it sensibly, otherwise it will adversely affect privacy and security, a New York State Police captain says.
Digital Government
Police fret over funding cuts
Law enforcement chiefs called on the federal government to fully restore cuts to a pair of two local law enforcement funding programs that affect, among other things, communications programs.
Digital Government
Alaska adopts criminal data mining
A consortium of Alaskan law enforcement agencies will use Coplink to analyze disparate pieces of data for investigative leads.
Digital Government
Performance flogs Tampa facial tech
Viability of facial-recognition systems left in question, privacy issues linger
Digital Government
NIC offers Web-in-a-box
The company that run's Oklahoma's Web portal wants to sell a simple, cost-effective solution that would help smaller state agencies establish a Web presence.
Digital Government
Rhode Island DOT papers go digital
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is creating an electronic document management system.
People
Schumer again calls for anti-spam list
The senator from New York renewed his call for a 'Do Not Spam' list modeled after the FTC's 'Do Not Call' registry.
Digital Government
Cox proposes faster funding for responders
The chairman of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security introduced a bill that would speed up the process of getting first responders homeland security funds.
Digital Government
Mass. lawmakers name Asbedian CIO
The Massachusetts legislature las month selected Val Asbedian, who had led the state's House of Representatives IT group since last fall, to become its first CIO
Digital Government
Minnesota carves e-recruiting path
An online resume application accelerated hiring and cut costs for the state.
Digital Government
Alaska moves documents to Web
Over the last two years, the state Recorder's Office has made its mainframe indexing system accessible over the Web and is slowly putting more documents online.
People
Feds arrange responder priorities
State and local associations asked to develop comprehensive list of requirements
Digital Government
A lesson in perseverance
Minnesota's Kelley finds lawmakers are finally catching on to the importance of tech
Digital Government
NIC offers Web-in-a-Box for state agencies
The company that runs Oklahoma's online portal wants to sell the product to other agencies.
Digital Government
Maricopa upgrades storage
After evaluating several products, the county's Network Solutions Group settled on CommVault Systems' Galaxy software.
Digital Government
Massachusetts updates procurement
The state government is adding more features to its Web-based purchasing system.
Digital Government
Arkansas launches insurance portal
Arkansas's Employee Benefits Division is building a Web-based system that will enable active and retired state and public school employees to view, enroll in and manage their health care plans and life insurance program online
Digital Government
House to consider E911 office
Before year's end, congressmen will likely decide whether to establish an office in the Commerce Department to speed implementation of emergency response systems.
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