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KABC-TV
Investigators say as the famous Gilroy Garlic Festival wrapped up recently, a teenager was cutting through a fence to gain access to the area so he could open fire on the crowd gathered. Emma Olivarez, who looks every part a carefree young woman, says the world she lives in now means not feeling safe in attending any event guaranteed to have a lots of people. "There are just bad people anywhere you go. You just have to be really cautious, I feel," she said. KABC-TV spoke to Olivarez just as news of Gilroy's deadly shooting had reached her.
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Governing
Cognizant is a technology company with offices in big cities all over the world. That’s not a coincidence. When it comes to generating jobs in the digital economy, “urban revitalization” ranks right up there with a strong educational system, Cognizant President Malcolm Frank told governors attending the annual meeting of the National Governors Association in Salt Lake City last week.
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Route Fifty
Lawmakers on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee recently introduced a surface transportation infrastructure bill that would allocate $287 billion over five years to fix and maintain highways and bridges across the U.S. The legislation would extend funding currently appropriated through the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which authorized $305 billion in spending on highways, bridges and other transportation infrastructure and is set to expire in 2020.
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City Lab
After the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, reports of a new, previously unheeded threat to local residents have emerged: lead poisoning. According to confidential documents leaked to the (paywalled) website Mediapart earlier this month and discussed across French media, locations surrounding the fire-damaged cathedral have registered levels of lead contamination ranging between 500 and 800 times the official safe level.
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Next Gov
A pair of senators are pressing the Homeland Security Department to release a mandated report on its use of biometric identification technology — and a detailed explanation as to why that information is nearly a month overdue, according to a letter published recently. “American travelers deserve to fully understand exactly who has access to their biometric data, how long their data will be held, how their information will be safeguarded, and how they can opt out of this data collection altogether,” Sens. Ed Markey, a democrat from Massachusetts, and Mike Lee, a republican from Utah, penned to Homeland Security’s Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan.
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Government Technology
The Georgia Department of Public Safety has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, according to state officials. Staff with the large state agency noticed the recent attack when it became apparent that some network resources and communication systems had been disrupted, said Chief Information Security Officer David Allen.
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American Inno
Recently, the D.C. Metro area experienced nearly a month’s worth of rain in an hour, leading to massive flash flooding and widespread disruption. This was just days before tropical storm Barry dumped up to 15 inches of rain in some parts of Louisiana. These events serve as a reminder that natural disasters continue to be a very real danger and city governments must be preparing to address them before they happen. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. in 2017, natural disasters caused a record $306 billion in damage in the U.S. alone.
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Route Fifty
Cities in California and Massachusetts have banned police use of facial recognition technology over privacy and accuracy concerns. But rolling out the video surveillance technology also could be hampered by another factor— lack of money or staff to make it work. Cities in California and Massachusetts have banned police use of facial recognition technology over privacy and accuracy concerns. But rolling out the video surveillance technology also could be hampered by another factor— lack of money or staff to make it work.
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