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The Standard
An Emergency Management Recovery meeting and presentation was conducted by Janet Riley with Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management recently at the Allamakee County Public Safety Center just north of Waukon, Iowa. The meeting began with an introduction by Allamakee County, Iowa, Emergency Management Coordinator Corey Snitker, followed by Riley speaking to a full conference room consisting of members of the media, local government, financial institutions, public works and economic development among other stakeholders from within the county.
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The Los Angeles Times
They entertain us, direct us back home from unfamiliar neighborhoods, answer trivial questions. Our cellphones are our lifeline to dozens of daily tasks. But what happens when you need your mobile most — to communicate during a disaster — and find that it isn’t working? During a disaster such as a wildfire, cellphone towers may burn down or be damaged, as happened during the 2017 wine country fires, when tower after tower went down. Many residents never received county-issued emergency alerts after they’d gone to bed for the night.
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Gov Tech
Add one more pair to the current avalanche of partnerships between gov tech companies: Two big players in public safety software, CentralSquare and Genetec, are teaming up. The move will see CentralSquare integrate its computer-aided dispatch into Genetec software such as the case management system Citigraf and decision support system Clearance. CentralSquare is billing the move as a way to make it easier for emergency responders to, among other things, access camera feeds when they receive a 911 call.
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City Lab
Among advocates of safe, sustainable, and bike-friendly mobility, the Netherlands has long been the success story to point to. But in English-speaking countries—especially the car-dominated U.S. — how useful is the Netherlands as an example to emulate? The question has been divisive. Many have said that the Dutch example won’t suit the U.S.; its government presumably always favored cycling, and the American love affair with the automobile means the car will always come first here.
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Next Gov
The Office of Personnel Management and the Federal Chief Information Officers Council are working on interagency rotations where graduates of the government’s reskilling academy can hone their new skills, an OPM official recently said. At a Nextgov event in Virginia, federal executives weighed in on creative practices agencies are adopting to simultaneously recruit a tech-savvy workforce of the future and boost present personnel to stay on top of the evolving technological landscape.
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Route Fifty
Standing amid cottonwood trees and a thicket of other vegetation, Jon Hansen looks out over a sunlight-dappled ribbon of crystal water running over a rocky bed. He’s standing on a site that until recently was filled with houses and mobile homes — properties that flooded six times in 20 years when the Cedar River spilled over its banks. Hansen, the capital project manager for King County, Washington, is showing off the 40-acre site as an example of the county’s floodplain restoration — removing human development rather than engineering bigger and costlier fixes to the flooding that is likely to get worse as a consequence of climate change.
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The Jacksonville Daily News
After a fire killed 34 people in a dive boat off the coast of California last month, the National Transportation Safety Board began an immediate investigation. Within 10 days, the NTSB published a key finding - that all six crew members were asleep with nobody on watch when the fire broke out - and promised an in-depth inquiry and safety recommendations. 11 months after fire obliterated Paradise, California, and left 85 people dead, there has been no such independent investigation.
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Governing
University of Arizona researchers are developing a form of cybersecurity inspired by the human body and capable of detecting threats in their earliest stages. This cybersecurity model would respond to security threats in computers and smartphones just as the nervous system responds to health threats within the human body. Think of the biological response that instinctively pulls your hand away from a hot stove or protects your immune system from a virus, but in this case, it’s a dangerous security threat.
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