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• Baltimore Police releases report on aerial surveillance test

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  Planes circling above the city increased the agency's arrest rate by 5% over 3 months, researchers found

• COVID-19: How public safety companies are assisting the frontline pandemic response

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  The businesses that equip and serve first responders are supporting the national emergency response with new products, free services and donations

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• Mayor orders San Diego's Smart Streetlights turned off until surveillance ordinance in place

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  Local police hailed the cameras as a game-changer, saying the images helped to identify suspects of violent crimes

• Portland approves strictest ban on facial recognition technology in the U.S.

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  City officials point to concerns over residents' civil rights and privacy as reasons for the bans

• ICMA: The accelerated shift to cloud software in local government

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  "The cloud presents a number of benefits you can’t get from most systems"

• How a Michigan county expedited flood recovery through innovative tech

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  "A lot of people think that traditional surveying is sufficient. But from a safety perspective, that’s not the best way"

• Los Angeles sheriff's deputies to get BWCs

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  The department is projected to spend $25 million over five years for 5,200 cameras

• US agency: Pandemic masks thwart face recognition tech up to 50% of the time

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  Under ideal conditions, the failure rate for the best algorithms is only about 0.3%, according to a study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology

• NY lawmakers vote to pause facial recognition in schools

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  The move follows an NYCLU lawsuit filed last month to have the state's only system deactivated

• Two L.A. County supervisors tout pandemic safety, but put own employees at risk, staffers say

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  In an anonymous letter, employees argue that telework options have been needlessly, and recklessly, limited

• On-Demand Webinar: Best practices for building rich conversational experiences for your constituents

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  Get an inside look at how state and local agencies are using technologies like Google Cloud and Dialogflow to enable remote workforce collaboration and engage citizens with tools like virtual intelligent agents

• CTO Download: San Leandro's Tony Batalla talks emerging tech, best practices and pandemic-induced digital transformation

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  Tony Batalla is the chief technology officer and head of innovation & IT for the City of San Leandro, California

• New Mexico mandates body cameras in wake of protests

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  The reforms apply to local and state law enforcement officers with the exception of tribal governments

• Contact tracing apps aren't going to solve the pandemic

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  Officials in 17 states have said they don't intend to create apps or use smartphones to perform contact tracing at all

• When facial recognition gets it wrong: Detroit man demands answers from police

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  The case is likely to fuel a movement in Detroit and around the U.S. protesting racial injustice at the hands of police

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