SafeGov
SafeGov focuses on helping local and state government agencies protect their communities by implementing effective safety and security measures. This includes developing strategies for emergency preparedness, law enforcement, public health, and cybersecurity to ensure the well-being of citizens. Government agencies play a crucial role in fostering safe environments through proactive planning and resource allocation. This directory offers articles on SafeGov and related topics like Public Safety, which explores broader initiatives aimed at safeguarding the public from various threats.
Michelle Woodfork also laid out what the department is doing to tackle a historic drop in the size of the NOPD’s force
The Folds of Honor scholarships are awarded yearly to the spouse and/or dependents of a responder who has fallen or been catastrophically wounded
The city will now pay most NOPD officers at least the same $50 per hour wage that they had offered to the auxiliary officers
As part of efforts to address terrorism, domestic terrorism and mass casualty incidents, DHS offers an explanatory video and fact sheet on the Pathways to Violence.
With calls to 911 coming mostly from wireless callers, the National 911 Program develops a best practices guide for supplemental location data solutions.
The National 911 Program is asking public safety practitioners to respond to a survey about communications technologies to helps shape national standards.
Advanced mobile location and other technologies will enhance 911 operations in 2019, according to Amir Elichai, Carbyne CEO and founder.
San Bernardino County’s self-funded workers comp system was investigated following a 2015 mass shooting attack. Implementing advocacy-based claims management may better manage treatment for victims.
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.
A free platform funded by DHS puts school staff and law enforcement officers together in a geospatial training ground to prepare for emergencies.
Explore the top states for firearm deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and by total number.
After several states passed laws extending police video data storage requirements, smaller municipalities are cancelling their bodycam programs due to costs
There’s a free online disaster training library for emergency planning and disaster response and recovery.
DHS government shutdown plans furlough 43 percent of its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency staff.
The Coast Guard will continue Department of Homeland Security operations unpaid during the 2018 government shutdown. Civilian support has been sent home.
Assumptions waste time, money, and resources, according to one CISO. “And they have the added disadvantage of not even effectively mitigating risk,” he writes.
Esri has released U.S. Census Bureau Data in its ArcGIS Living Atlas, increasing widespread access to the most timely federal data on population, housing and workforce. And it auto updates.
The FBI released the 2017 NIBRS law enforcement crime data reporting and shared insights on victims, offenders and narcotics-related arrests.
School safety, active shooter, mental health and other challenges will shape the coming year in public safety operations and service delivery.
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