How State and Local Governments Are Working Toward Vision Zero
State Tech Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Transportation ranked No. 1 for local government and saw a growth of nearly 9 percent year over…
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State Tech Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Transportation ranked No. 1 for local government and saw a growth of nearly 9 percent year over…
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 3, 2022
They are crimes and they have tremendous negative effective on quality of life and public safety. This "Small Business Public Safety Resources" guide was produced by two New York City Councilmembers with the aim of getting businesses to call for responses other than police.
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zencity
JULY 24, 2023
Public safety is also at the forefront. The report cites, “according to data collected in 2022 from government social media and local media organizations, Zencity found that most of the discourse about violence, crime, and general public safety is negative, indicating low satisfaction and trust among residents.”
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
According to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), as of October 11, 2022, the US has sustained 15 weather/climate disaster events, with losses exceeding $1 billion each, the deaths of 342 people, and significant economic effects on the areas impacted. Not just for our agency, but for the people that we serve.”.
zencity
JANUARY 3, 2022
It’s a new year, which means our team is here to share the local government conferences we’re most excited for in 2022. As we kick off 2022, we’re planning to attend dozens more city , county , and law enforcement conferences mapped out over 25 US states and three countries including the UK and Spain. IACP Technology Conference 2022.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
Fans line up outside the arena before the opening night game between the Washington Capitals and the Boston Bruins at Capital One Arena on October 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images).
California Department of Technology
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
September 12, 2022 – NOTE: CDT’s Stabilization Service is accepting nominations through September 15, 2022. COVID-19, destructive wildfires and public safety power shutoffs demanded CDT respond to multiple crises simultaneously by stabilizing state websites and IT services. Visit [link] for information. .
GovLoop
MAY 25, 2023
A High-Level View According to the 2022 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, the global cyber workforce has reached 4.7 20, 2022, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine seen as imminent, New York Gov. Instead, it’s that the cyber threats are so varied and always evolving. million workers, but that still leaves 3.4
zencity
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The survey measures public opinion on police services, such as trust and safety, in Greensboro. Running over a two-month period from October-December 2022, the survey included questions about how residents feel about police services and operations, public safety concerns, and how the police department can improve.
GovLoop
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Kathy Hochul announced in July 2022 the formation of the Joint Security Operations Center (JSOC) to “serve as the nerve center for joint local, state and federal cyber efforts, including data collection, response efforts and information sharing.”. To meet that challenge, New York Gov. Get the guide.
Open Access Government - Technology News
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
In 2022, the National Cyber Strategy Committee announced the British government’s Cyber Security Strategy, which recognised a significant gap between where the UK’s cyber resilience was compared to where it should be. The UK government is a good example of a state actor recognising the need for imminent action in its cybersecurity.
The City Fix
JANUARY 19, 2023
For decades, the city of Peshawar, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan, has been rocked by wars and acts of terrorism that disrupted public safety and made it difficult to plan the city’s growth. A particularly challenging consequence.
GovLoop
DECEMBER 28, 2022
An interview with Brian Anderson, Practice Leader for Public Safety at Avaya. On many military bases and agency campuses, local public safety agencies face obstacles in providing a fundamental service: responding to 911 calls. A call from a cellphone will go to a cell tower outside the campus, and from there to a PSAP.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 20, 2024
. -- " Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago ," 2024 - " The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities ," 2022 -- " What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city?
Barrett & Greene
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Consider the December 2022 audit of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, which pointed out that the department did not “promptly or properly deactivate 17 terminated employees’ access” to the state’s criminal justice and accounting systems. There’s more.
AWS Public Sector Blog
MARCH 8, 2023
In 2022, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) initiated a pilot project to analyze traffic patterns and provide analytics within the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The PIDC is Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation and master developer of the historic shipyard, which is now a thriving, mixed-use campus.
Google Public Sector
AUGUST 29, 2023
In 2022, the State of Hawaii's DHS joined forces with Google Cloud to introduce the Statewide Branch Support Desk (SBSD). Google Cloud Customer Award Winner: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award Winner: Minnesota Department of Public Safety (MN DPS).
GovLoop
AUGUST 22, 2022
A Forrester report in 2022 found that data training improves retention and employee happiness, and significantly enhances innovation, customer experience, decision-making and more. Agencies generate, collect and distribute so much data that impact people’s lives, from health to public safety. Why It Matters.
Google Public Sector
AUGUST 29, 2023
In 2022, the State of Hawaii's DHS joined forces with Google Cloud to introduce the Statewide Branch Support Desk (SBSD). Google Cloud Customer Award Winner: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award Winner: Minnesota Department of Public Safety (MN DPS).
Open Access Government - Technology News
AUGUST 24, 2022
In an emergency, for example, during damaging floods or even during this summer’s heat waves, the government benefits from receiving and processing data in real-time so that actions can be taken immediately to ensure public safety. A significant element is protecting data from unauthorised access, harm, and misuse.
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In January 2022, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) unveiled the National Roadway Safety Strategy , and Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that includes a new Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program. Building a culture of innovation to better serve citizens.
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Essential services for emergency response, public safety, or national security can be designed in a way that allows for the smooth shift of operations between on-premises and the cloud. Level 3: Active cloud standby.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
In Washington, 75% of deadly crashes in 2022 involved one or more of the “fatal four”: impairment, distraction, speeding, and not wearing seat belts. In reality, it’s likely a mix of factors, including more speeding, heavier vehicles, dense development concentrated around multilane roads, and a decrease in traffic enforcement.
AWS Public Sector Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
On September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall in Southwest Florida. The Category 4 hurricane knocked out power to over four million customers in Florida and over 1.1 million in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Social Pinpoint
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
The overall objectives included: Understand the needs of Apple Street stakeholders Improved public safety and amenity of the Apple Street precinct for residents and businesses Enhanced visitor experience of the precinct 2. The portal was open for feedback for 8 weeks, commencing on the 1st of September 2022.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)
AWS Public Sector Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The solution underwent an iterative refinement and validation process, with complete migration to the AWS Cloud in June 2022. Improving public safety and innovating through voice and video technology: The latest from AWS CICs. Preventing the next pandemic: How researchers analyze millions of genomic datasets with AWS.
AWS Public Sector Blog
JULY 26, 2022
Carbyne , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) justice and public safety customer and partner, provides 911 call handling systems, offering a cloud-native software as a service (SaaS) platform with two main product offerings for public safety clients: Carbyne Universe and Carbyne APEX. How the City of Fort St.
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
In spring 2022, a state judicial system implemented a scalable livestreaming solution using Nomad with Amazon IVS in less than two months. However, streaming with Amazon IVS is super-fast and ultra low latency,” said Branko Lepan, co-founder and chief information officer (CIO) of Nomad.
zencity
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The fact remains that the public conversation about policing speaks to some undeniable truths: First, crime rates, particularly violent crime, have skyrocketed nationwide. Second, trust in the police is also experiencing a worrying trend of decline.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Women’s Attitudes and Beliefs on Using Public Restrooms ," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020) -- " Female restrooms in the tourist destination: how the socio-spatial conditions of public toilets influence women’s perception of safety ," Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (2022) Other issues.
Government Technology Insider
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The sheer number of transportation infrastructure issues that need to be addressed impacting traffic, safety, and mobility is overwhelming. In the future, transportation leaders will look for more ways to put this information to work to optimize traffic, connect people, and improve public safety.
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
APRIL 18, 2023
The Tracker provides ARP budgeted data through last December (2022) for all local governments except Tier 5 (the smallest cities and counties). While the Tracker includes all forms of local government investment, from community aid to public safety, the rest of this post focuses on infrastructure specifically.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 2, 2022
But not that much (" Rents and home prices are still soaring, but at a slower pace ," Washington Post ), " The Most Competitive Rental Markets in 2022: Miami Is Red Hot, While Competition in the Northeast Intensifies ," RentCafe). And public safety. We are seeing that. These efforts, executives say, will help woo talent.
CRA Today
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No Copyright © 2022 by CRA Today LLC. (No Public safety: Without a safe place to deposit their money, unbanked people are more likely to be victims of crime because they often carry large sums of cash with them or keep cash in their homes. Customized Bank Training: [link] .
zencity
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Nearing the end of 2022, while we are more globally connected than ever, we are nonetheless most impacted by the communities in which we live. Our greatest challenges as a society manifest themselves the most on a local level—whether they relate to health, climate, social and cultural challenges, economic resilience, and public safety.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 3, 2024
I don't understand when elected officials don't appreciate how important getting public safety under control was to inward investment and population growth in the 2000s. OTOH, having lived in DC in the 1980s and 1990s when things hit bottom, I am anti-disorder to the nth degree. into a global learning hub.”.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.
Partnership for Public Service
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
and approximate public opinion in the country. is already experiencing a crisis of public trust in government. A previous nationally representative survey conducted by the Partnership in late 2022 showed that only 35% of the public trusted the federal government compared with 46% who did not.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 27, 2023
Now, the focus has shifted to public safety." "It used to be that the first questions we got were about sustainability, food service and tech," Starks said.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 9, 2023
The city's legislators, many of whom lack substantive experience of cities in the period of the 1970s through the 1990s when many were in serious decline, and had problematic public safety, didn't realize that at times they need to manage the narrative and "manage up.' decision ," Washington Post ).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 1, 2023
The quality of life outcomes for states under Republican rule are decidedly negative ( 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance: How did states do during the COVID-19 pandemic? There is no question that things are far different from the time when states were considered opportunities for innovation--laboratories of democracy.
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