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Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Nevada Legislature stepped into its second month of work recently, moving into the middle innings of its 120-day biennial session with hearings on legislative topics including school safety, human trafficking, open meetings and child custody laws.
A joint hearing of the Senate and Assembly education committees recently heard two bills on school safety, the first making school building blueprints confidential except to law enforcement or architects, contractors and certain others working for the school.
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Government Technology
As the nation and the world focused on nuclear talks with North Korea, the testimony of Michael Cohen and a string of new people announcing that they are running for president, several important stories were (sadly) squeezed out of national news headlines and online media coverage.
One of the most important, and under-reported series of stories over the past several weeks has been the coverage of the 2019 National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C.
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By Bambi Majumdar
Surveys conducted in 2018 showed that, out of 17 vulnerable industries, education institutions had the weakest cybersecurity protections.
Many K-12 schools now face serious scrutiny because of their failure to offer a robust security plan. This may prevent their students' data from being safe. The McAfee Labs 2019 Threat Predictions Report shows that the cyber underworld is evolving and consolidating, and we can expect growing cybercrime networks in 2019.
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KRCG-TV
Boone County Emergency Management Planning and Preparedness Specialist Sherril Gladney said recently there are many ways to prepare should severe weather strike the Show-Me State.
Monday, March 4, marked the beginning of Severe Weather Preparedness Week in Missouri. The week focuses on preparing for different weather possibilities like tornadoes, flash floods and thunderstorms.
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Emergency Management
In this era of highly advanced technology, some fire and EMS agencies still use paging systems to communicate about incidents. The communication is often sequential in nature and not the best avenue for sharing urgent information.
That's what prompted the North Carolina Department of Information Technology, in partnership with the Wireless Research Center of North Carolina and UNC-TV Public Media, to embark on a project they hope will change that.
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WTSP-TV
Federal funding has long been a point of contention following natural disasters. And, a 2018 study isn't doing much to quell critics' concerns.
The long-term study of federal dollars being applied to natural disasters claims aid has been disproportionately given to wealthier communities over their less wealthy counterparts. Sociologists Junia Howell and James Elliott published the study, which found that as damage from natural disasters increased, so did the amount of federal aid based on economic status.
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Herald-Mail Media
The Washington County Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed recently to seek a FEMA grant to hire 29 full-time firefighters to help address the growing cry for help from volunteer stations.
The commissioners also want to do something to help struggling EMS companies. They did not go into detail about EMS, but they rather focused on fire operations because of a March 22 deadline to apply for the federal grant.
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Claims Journal
It may be obvious when people get injured at work, but it may not always be apparent when people acquire infections resulting from exposures at work.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reviewed infectious disease investigations in workplaces across the U.S. to understand the range of cases, the risk factors for workers and ways to prevent infectious disease transmission.
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Route Fifty
Duke University recently declined to sign a cooperative agreement for a planned light-rail project, jeopardizing federal funding and forcing local officials to explore other options, including seizing land by eminent domain.
In a letter dated Feb. 27, Duke officials told the president of GoTriangle transit agency that the university continued to have concerns despite a lengthy and collaborative planning process on the proposed project.
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