Community Engagement
Community Engagement is essential for local and state government agencies aiming to build trust, encourage public participation, and ensure that policies reflect residents’ needs and concerns. Governments can foster stronger connections with their communities through outreach programs, public forums, and collaborative decision-making. This directory offers articles on community engagement and related topics like Community Development, which focuses on improving the overall well-being and sustainability of communities through targeted initiatives.
Despite two finalists being interviewed in a public forum, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean named Meridian Chief Mark Niemeyer to the top position at the Boise Fire Department
While standing guard against armed groups, officers across the country are also aware their own presence could intimidate voters
The FBI said Sunday that it’s investigating the fire that damaged dozens of ballots
Partnerships and outreach efforts that focus on training and sharing impactful stories of victims and their advocates are essential
The researchers watched and coded each officer interaction, reviewing about 325 hours of video from Aransas Pass Police Department body worn camera footage
The El Paso Municipal Court won a Traffic Safety Awareness Award by incorporating traffic camera footage in Red Light Videos and promoting them on social media.
Find out how a future with digital ID is being shaped by today’s wearable technologies, the need for securing payments and authentication opportunities from Tiffany Conway with Gemalto’s government programs.
The fast-growing town of Gilbert, Arizona, uses SeeClickFix to streamline service requests, prioritize repair efforts and communicate with citizens
Ready New York’s Katelyn James created Ready Girl, a superhero that is super prepared and engaging youth on what they need to know in an emergency.
From managing requests to running rich reports and engaging citizens regularly and during disasters, 311 data systems are evolving government operations
A federal judge ruled a proposed citizenship status question on the 2020 Census is Constitutional, but Congress was not given required three years notice.
With federal funding won through an FCC auction, a regional electric cooperative will bring broadband to more than 16,000 customers in rural Pennsylvania.
Families need to know both when to set hurricane preparations in motion as well as when it’s too late to evacuate
Emoji Cities is a tool that tracks the negative and positive sentiments of 69 major cities throughout the world. U.S. cities routinely hold several places on the 10 most negative cities list.
Philadelphia public safety data showing most homicides in over a decade.
Learn about Latino community policing efforts by MPD and Dane County’s Amigos en Azul special police unit, and how the program has grown.
Citizens want access to government services anywhere, any time and on any device. That’s why governments must consider mobile website design in 2019.
IDEMIA was awarded $1.2 million through a competitive bidding process to develop Iowa’s digital licenses system for launch in late 2019 or early 2020.
Jack Foster details the worst data breaches -- in terms of volume -- that occurred in 2018.
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