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5/20/2013 8:00 AM
According to an article in The Times Dispatch, (May 8, 2013, by Shantelle Prater) the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department (LCSD), Arkansas, has added a new feature to increase public awareness. The new mobile application (app) called “MobilePatrol” is an app which provides real-time detention center detainee information including mug shots, charges, and access to the Victim Information Notification Everyday (VINE) link, as well as allow crime victims access to timely and reliable information about criminal cases and the custody status of offenders 24 hours a day. "With this app users can view who is in jail, who has warrants, our most wanted list, and child-support issues," said Lawrence County Sheriff Jody Dotson. "The app also features links to the sheriff's department and contact information for city officials.”
5/17/2013 8:00 AM
 There is no lack of commercially available tools to counter rapidly evolving cyber threats, but putting them into place and having them work together efficiently can be a challenge. Available tools often are not used because the technology might be difficult to use, might not be widely known, or might be too expensive to be practical. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is planning to help agencies and other organizations put those tools in play, partnering with a nonprofit organization to provide technical and project management support for its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCOE). The new federally funded research and development center would be the first of its kind dedicated to cybersecurity and would facilitate cooperation between the private sector and the NCCOE. The State of Maryland and Montgomery County, Maryland, are cosponsoring the center with NIST, which will work to strengthen U.S. economic growth by supporting automated and trustworthy e-government and e-commerce. NIST has released an initial notice of its intent to partner with such a center and expects to issue a request for proposals this summer.
5/16/2013 8:00 AM
Federal Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Todd Park, speaking at a luncheon hosted by TechAmerica, pointed to a speech given by President Barrack Obama at the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2012 when the President promised to redouble efforts to go after sex traffickers abroad and at home. According to Park, the White House efforts against domestic human trafficking are starting to bear fruit. As an outgrowth of the Obama initiative, the Ford Foundation has helped to build a tool that uses algorithms to identify signals that an ad is posted advertising an underage child. Efforts to shut down Web sites that contained ads for trafficked children had previously been unproductive because the ads would move from site to site. Law enforcement officers had poured over tens of thousands of online ads posted every week at sites for clues but this was extremely labor intensive.
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