Online Solution Eases Local Grant

New Mexico’s largest city has launched an effort to help coordinate safe and peaceful protests. Albuquerque, N.M.’s Office of Equity and Inclusion launched a new hotline and webpage for the effort on July 31, according to a city news release. When called, the hotline will provide information on protesting and will connect callers to resources […]

FirstNet is supporting more than 1.5 million connections that are being used by more than 13,000 subscribing agencies through June, representing an adoption rate that likely doubles the number of FirstNet connections reported at this time last year, according to figures released today by AT&T, the nationwide contractor for FirstNet. AT&T CEO John Stankey cited […]

Governors of southern states are handling mask mandates in widely varied ways, which in turn is affecting their local governments across the region differently. A July 3 executive order from Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee allows mayors in 89 counties to issue local face mask requirements, the Times Free Press reports. The state’s six other counties […]

In October of last year, Congress issued a bi-partisan report finding that government “agencies do little or nothing to stop crimes and abuses committed in the systems they use to collect public comments on proposed regulations,” and that they are lax in the process of determining which comments on proposed rules are real or fake. […]