Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Emergency Alerts Over Gaming Networks, DHS Grant Guidance for 2010

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
News and Features
Video game controllerNew York Testing Emergency Alerts Over Xbox, PlayStation, Wii Online Networks
The state's free, subscription-based emergency alert system could expand to online gamers in 2010.

Police in riot gear doing crowd controlA Retrospective of the 1999 World Trade Organization Riots in Seattle
Worst-case planning, resource planning, joint agency planning, among the lessons learned from seminal event in the Pacific Northwest.

DHS Secretary Janet NapolitanoDHS Releases Grant Guidance for 2010
Grant application guidance kits have been issued for 13 DHS grant programs totaling more than $2.7 billion.

2009 Best of California Award Winners Announced
California state and local officials took home technology accolades at the Center for Digital Government's Best of California awards ceremony.

Earthquake rubbleEarthquake Detection System Uses Twitter to Collect Accounts of Seismic Activity
The system pulls tweets into a database, allowing the USGS to generate a report on the data. 

Randolph Roth Homicide Rates Linked to Trust in Government, Sense of Belonging, Study Suggests
People's views about the legitimacy of government and how much they identify with their fellow citizens play a major role in how often they kill each other - much more so than the usual theories revolving around guns, poverty, drugs, race, or a permissive justice system.

Crime Scene Photos Crime Scene Measurements Can Now Be Taken From a Single Image
Two researchers have developed a procedure that will enable forensic police to extract measurement data from crime scenes using just a single photograph.

 
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