A proposed ordinance in Albany, N.Y. would would regulate the city’s surveillance technology, including facial recognition software and surveillance cameras.
The City of Bridgeport in Connecticut announced a $433,616 federal grant to improve port security and water rescue equipment, including ramping up and replacing video surveillance.
Tennessee's 2020-2021 budget includes $38 million in capital maintenance across higher education institutions from the Higher Education Capital Maintenance Fund and $2 million non-recurring statewide security grants.
The NYPD arrested a suspect of attempted rape, assault and harassment after a bystander in the subway intervened. Video of the subway attack was used by the NYPD’s facial recognition team to identify the suspect from a previous arrest.
A popular tourist attraction in central Japan, the Iga-ryu Ninja Museum was broken into by thieves who opened an office safe and took more than one million yen in cash.
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Department of Safety and Quality Assurance (DSQA) has achieved the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 certification of its Quality Management System (QMS).
A study by researchers at the University of Maryland claims that schools that increased staffing levels of SROs were more likely to record increases in crimes and to exclude students from school in response to those crimes than schools without increases in SRO staffing levels.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the appointment of Gregory Alvarez as Director of San Juan Field Operations, which covers ports of entry in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.