Welcome to WiFi Country
Michael Fickes
In rural Arizona, in the small town of Golden Valley, population 7,500, the telephone company charges approximately $4,500 per month for a broadband T1...
Automating Risk Response
Michael Fickes
Two days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Doug Pasley and another risk management officer with the Tampa police department received orders...
The Cost Of Water-Tight Security
Michael Fickes
Last year, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) announced a five-year, $132-million security plan designed to protect the region's water...
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Michael Fickes
When police arrive at the scene of an accident or crime, they talk to each other over the radio. But they can't communicate with anyone else. Typically,...
Broadcast Security
Michael Fickes
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) may soon rid itself of wires. From remote camera locations to monitoring stations, the aim is to broadcast video signals...
City of Edmonton Upgrades Access Control
May 1, 2003
15 years ago city officials in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, Canada, wanted an electronic access control system that could help protect dozens of...
Faces In The Crowd
Michael Fickes
In a test conducted for the Virginia Beach Police Department during the summer of 2002, facial recognition software found and matched faces in a crowd...
Show Us The Money
Paul Rothman
Has your state gotten its share of the money? Since Sept. 11, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has provided funding for...
On Duty In Lakewood, Colo.
Michael Fickes
The Lakewood, Colo., Police Department uses private security officers to protect the integrity of crime scenes and to guard prisoners during hospital...
A Computer System To Warn U.S. Cities Of Atmospheric Releases
Michael Fickes
This fall, Ronda Mosley-Rovi plans to detonate a simulated chemical, biological, or nuclear weapon in Seattle. As director for environmental programs...
Local Governments: Are You Ready? Who Will Pay?
Jan Rabinowitz
Smaller government jurisdictions are less likely to be prepared for disaster than larger cities and counties. Among jurisdictions with fewer than 10,000...
Fighting Terrorism: What Governors and Mayors Should Do
Jennifer Pero
Governors and mayors should be placing terrorism on the higher end of the disaster management and overall state planning spectrum, suggests the Executive...
