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Sample Message Templates for Wildfire Notifications

Wildfires have the potential to cause large-scale devastation to lives, property and businesses....

How technology is unlocking the future of firefighting and public safety

When you think about how technology is enabling remote government work, what comes to mind?...

Former police chief sues city over racial, gender discrimination

In April 2019, LaTesha Watson was fired from her post as Henderson, Nev.’s police chief. Her...

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FEMA releases operational guidelines, hosts webinars on accommodating COVID-19 during hurricane season

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is working to make sure that communities will head into 2020’s hurricane season while accounting for the new challenges that COVID-19 has brought. Published on June 5, the 59-page document includes detailed information on state, local, tribal and territorial government response planning and recovery planning during the 2020 hurricane […]

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City SWAT team’s future uncertain after all members resign

A local SWAT team’s fate is up in the air after all members resigned from the team and city leaders remain unsure of how to proceed. On June 12, all ten Hallandale Beach, Fla. police officers who were members of the city’s SWAT team resigned, according to CBS Miami. The officers did not resign from […]

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Is defunding the police anti-law enforcement?

Nine months ago, the Dallas City Council unanimously approved a $517 million police operating budget. Now, as protests and demonstrations against police violence sweep the nation, council members are changing course, saying they’re open to defunding the department and reallocating resources to other city departments and services. The Dallas City Council isn’t alone. Across the […]

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Majority of city council commits to disbanding Minneapolis Police Department, replace it with community-based public safety model

At a protest Sunday afternoon, part of the overwhelming national response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, nine of the 12-member Minneapolis City Council voiced their support for disbanding the city’s police department and replacing it with a community-based public safety model. The committed council members […]

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Cities struggle to quell violence while protecting rights of protesters; some set curfews, others lift them

While the leaders of numerous major American Cities have instituted curfews in hopes of preventing demonstrations from becoming violent, some are lifting the restrictions and others are standing opposed to enacting them in the first place. In a press conference on Wednesday, Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Vi Lyles said curfews infringe on the rights of demonstrators […]

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An American crisis: Riots break out across the country

Tempers boiled over across the country this weekend as protests in dozens of cities turned violent leading to property damage, loss of life and increasing tensions between the police and the communities they’re charged with protecting. But to understand the chaos, we have to understand what brought us to this point. George Floyd’s Death – […]

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Mayors working to fight a different invisible threat during the pandemic: domestic abuse

Much has been said in recent weeks about the public health pandemic sweeping through our country. Coined the “invisible enemy” in our midst, COVID-19 has upended nearly every institution and organization in our society, from hospital emergency rooms to our favorite shops on “Main Street.” And while the public health and economic disruptions have been […]

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Smarter criminal justice reform

The United States has a massive incarceration problem. Since the 1970s, there has been a 700 percent increase in our prison population. Currently, about 2.3 million women and men are incarcerated, with close to 650,000 people released from prisons each year. The reality that these people face when released is a lack of marketable skills […]

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New York City subway deliberately shut down for the first time in its history

For the first time in its 115-year history, the entire New York City subway system was intentionally shut down on Wednesday. The famed train system is one of only a handful in the country that usually runs 24 hours a day; however, as the pandemic grips the city, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has decided it […]

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Survey results: local government leaders express coronavirus concerns

American City & County recently polled its readership to understand their worries during the continued pandemic. A second wave of COVID-19 infections topped the list of concerns. Economic and social pressures are causing communities to consider relaxing their shutdowns, despite warnings from the medical community that doing so prematurely might set off a second wave of […]

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Public Safety

Highlights

Sample Message Templates for Wildfire Notifications

How technology is unlocking the future of firefighting and public safety

Former police chief sues city over racial, gender discrimination

Article

FEMA releases operational guidelines, hosts webinars on accommodating COVID-19 during hurricane season

Article

City SWAT team’s future uncertain after all members resign

Article

Is defunding the police anti-law enforcement?

Article

Majority of city council commits to disbanding Minneapolis Police Department, replace it with community-based public safety model

ArticleNews

Cities struggle to quell violence while protecting rights of protesters; some set curfews, others lift them

Article

An American crisis: Riots break out across the country

Article

Mayors working to fight a different invisible threat during the pandemic: domestic abuse

Article

Smarter criminal justice reform

Article

New York City subway deliberately shut down for the first time in its history

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Survey results: local government leaders express coronavirus concerns

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Sample Message Templates for Wildfire Notifications

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Young Leaders Episode 4 – Cyril Jefferson – City Councilman, High Point, North Carolina

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