Public Safety
Public Safety is a top priority for local and state government agencies, encompassing the protection of citizens through law enforcement, emergency response, and crime prevention strategies. Effective public safety measures are essential for maintaining order and ensuring the well-being of communities. This directory offers articles on public safety and related topics like Emergency Management, which focuses on preparing for and responding to natural disasters, public health crises, and other emergencies that impact community safety.
The Oceanside Police Department, which already maintains a drone fleet, may use the $200K grant to fund a real time response center and a drones as first responders program
The bill offers first-time homebuyer assistance with $0 down and no monthly mortgage insurance for qualified law enforcement officers, firefighters and EMS providers
A Baton Rouge Cybertruck owner donated $20,000 worth of EV fire blankets to local fire stations after learning they had only two to handle electric vehicle fires
There have been signs of discord between state and local governments across the country about how any settlements would be divided among them. Ohio officials are hoping to avoid this with a preemptive agreement.
Mayor Eric Garcetti launched the Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic deaths on Los Angeles streets in 2015, but the city has made little progress toward this goal.
If it becomes law, the council’s legislation will impose a moratorium on evictions between Dec. 1 and March 1, with some exceptions.
One person had a stroke after leaving anti-stroke medication behind when fleeing.
Nuro said it plans to deploy fewer than 100 vehicles this year, but has permission from NHTSA to eventually run as many as 2,500. The delivery vehicles, equipped with laser, camera and radar sensors, will travel with regular traffic on public roads.
The vast majority of respondents to the NHTSA survey said they considered EMS to be an essential government service.
The gunman, Robert Williams, had been upset since his own son died after being shot in the Bronx, his grandmother told the New York Post.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is offering 25 grants worth up to $800,000 to rural EMS agencies.
About 2 million times each year, the seriously mentally ill are admitted to jails nationwide. One Michigan sheriff is saying enough is enough.
Even if money could be found to pay for metal detectors at bus stations, it would be impossible to have them at every stop along a route, security experts say.
Albuquerque’s Security Services Division is now handling some of the 17,000 “down-and-out” calls the city receives each year in a pilot program intended to make the public safety system more efficient.
A Stateline investigation has identified 118 cases since 2015 in which a school bus driver was arrested or cited by police on suspicion of driving a bus impaired by alcohol or drugs.
Though the dispatch center is authorized to employ 11 full-time staff members, it’s currently operating with only four.
Focused on the effects of the load brought home by telecommunicators, this study outlines perceived changes family members of dispatchers notice during their tenure in the profession
After working with patients and incarcerated people for years, neuropsychologist Donna Minter hungered for a more effective way to help people heal and transform.
“Public safety comes when communities have dignified and affordable homes, access to quality education, good health care, reliable transportation and stable jobs that provide a living wage”
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