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Louisville, Kentucky, Integrates Alerts Into New Crime Map

1/27/2012 8:00 AM
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Louisville, Kentucky, residents now have access to crime alerts in a newly revamped online crime mapping tool. The Louisville Metro Police Department, located in Jefferson County, launched a new online crime mapping tool. Users can enter their home address into a QuickFind tool to receive crime updates based on which of the county’s eight police divisions they live in. Each division is further divided into different “beats”—or different sections of a division—so citizens can receive more granular crime alerts for where they live.

GSA Course Aims to Train Government Social Media Leaders

1/26/2012 8:00 AM
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Every federal agency could benefit from engaging more on social media, but different agencies ought to engage in different ways, said Gadi Ben-Yehuda, who will be teaching a 12-week government-sponsored course beginning in February. Ben-Yehuda's course on social media in government will be the most in-depth yet offered by the General Services Administration's (GSA) Web Manager University.
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Supreme Court: Planting GPS Tracker On a Car is "Search," Requires Warrant

1/24/2012 2:00 PM
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A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that installing a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car constitutes a search and requires a warrant, applying an 18th century guarantee against unreasonable searches to a 21st century technology. “The government’s attachment of the GPS device to the vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment,” the court ruled in a decision released Jan. 23.


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