Civil Rights Group Sues NYPD Over City Surveillance Plan

Sep 12, 2008

A civil rights group sued the New York Police Department seeking to learn more about a plan to use license plate readers and a network of 3,000 surveillance cameras to help protect lower Manhattan from terrorist threats....

CoreStreet

Aug 22, 2008

Making The Leap

By Bruce Walker

The logical and physical access worlds are converging at an ever-increasing rate. One badging standard for physical access and another standard for logical...

D.C. Council Decides To Block City Surveillance Project

May 15, 2008

Privacy advocates are applauding the recent decision by a key committee of the District of Columbia Council to eliminate nearly $900,000 in proposed funding for consolidating the operations of 5,200 city surveillance cameras....

Unexpected Crises Spark Opening Of Georgia Training Facility

May 1, 2008

The tornado that hit downtown Atlanta in March is a prime example of the unexpected crises that demand rapid, seamless and efficient communications among...

New Technology Facilitates Planning For Active Hurricane Season

May 1, 2008

Following predictions of an above average hurricane season, Applied Science Associates Inc. (ASA), Narragansett, R.I., introduced a computer modeling...

Citizen Watch

By Ashley Roe

In Laguna Beach, a seaside community of approximately 24,000 in southern California, citizens have taken charge of fire prevention and detection. The...

DIGITAL Eyes

By Ashley Roe

West Palm Beach, the oldest incorporated municipality in Florida, now has eyes watching its streets, helping police officers intercept and reduce crime...

Technology At The Ports

Larry Anderson Stephanie Silk Michael Fickes Rafi Bhonker

The Port of Los Angeles, located in San Pedro Bay, is Southern California's 7,500-acre gateway to international commerce. Throughout 43 miles of waterfront...

Threat Condition ORANGE

By Roger L. Kemp

In order to improve coordination and communication among all levels of government and the public in the fight against terrorism, the President signed...

The Power of Fusion

By Michael Fickes

More than a year before 9/11, intelligence collected by the National Security Agency (NSA) could have identified one of the hijackers, but NSA didn't...

Reliable Networking

By Umberto Malesci

Wireless mesh a network architecture for video surveillance systems that uses wireless transmitters provides more reliability and flexibility compared...

Aviation Security Progress Report

By Michael Fickes

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted two studies of the nation's aviation security system during 2007. Both evaluated progress made by...

Help On The Line

By Ashley Roe

On Aug. 1, 2007, at 6:05 p.m., hordes of Minneapolis motorists traveling over the 1,907-ft. I-35W bridge found themselves in a living nightmare as the...

One Unread Message

By Stephanie Silk

In a world of evolving technology at every corner, it's no wonder that questions arise as to how these technologies can improve not only convenience but...

Deadline Looms

Jan 1, 2008

The final rule for REAL ID compliance provides the necessary guidance for states to begin building systems and linking networks to fulfill the mandates...

New Level of Control

Jan 1, 2008

Beaumont, Calif., city officials are no longer looking over their shoulders. Keeping track of people is second nature to police officers, so when the...

Alabama Gets Virtual

Dec 1, 2007

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and the Alabama Department of Homeland Security have unveiled the Virtual Alabama software program, a limited-access Web site that...

Securing So Cal

By Stephanie Silk

As current events repeatedly highlight laptop loss and theft such as the 2006 theft of laptops containing the Social Security numbers of millions of U.S....

Eyes All Around

By Terry Denison and Tony Sivore

On completion of a multi-million dollar sports complex, the Town of Parker, Colo., needed to do something to ensure that the recreation center offered...

A Canopy of Connectivity

By Ashley Roe

At the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), one of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DoE) 10 national laboratories, 4,200 staff members conduct...

PROTECTING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: A Shared Responsibility

Dec 1, 2007

One of the key issues confronting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense (DoD), state, local and tribal governments and...

Detecting Voter Fraud

By Yuri Prizemin

Election fraud robs Americans of their voice in government and impacts political results across the nation, making it a significant concern for federal,...

Automating Cooperation

By Michael Fickes

When Hurricane Katrina knocked out electrical power across the Gulf region, telecommunications companies used gas generators to power telephone switches...

Under Close Watch

Aug 1, 2007

In 2004, after observing a closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance project in the city of Westminster in London and a small citizen-led video surveillance...