The city, with a population of roughly 58,000, uses a modern budgeting system to streamline and improve the accuracy of its process and to save staff time. In place since late 2025, it also aids in sharing data.
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After years of complaints from workers, lawmakers have advanced a bill to replace outdated technology without disrupting services. Having cleared the Statehouse, it awaits the governor’s signature. -
Scott Conn acknowledges that staff with lots of technical know-how can have blind spots, so his leadership strategy includes opportunities to grow skills like public speaking, resulting in well-rounded employees.
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The modernized system for rules, regulations and their publication is now live, replacing a 60-year-old manual process that officials say was not as efficient, transparent or clear.
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The state’s new chief data officer is a longtime exec at the California Health and Human Services Agency; and, most recently a high-ranking guide at the Department of Health Care Services.
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San Diego CIO Jonathan Behnke said that despite some of AI‘s drawbacks, like a loss of knowledge among entry-level workers, most employees are seeing its upsides.
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In Latah County, CIO Laurel Caldwell doesn’t anticipate adding to her staff of six full-time employees, but rather embracing new technologies by expanding their skillsets.
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Package delivery by drone has won approval from the North Haven Planning and Zoning Commission. After the FAA signs off on Prime Air flights from North Haven, the devices will be clear for takeoff.
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The Common Council has unanimously approved a law barring businesses that are open to the public from using facial recognition technology. It is the second New York city to enact such a law.
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Students have been pressuring administration to end Cal Poly's contract with Flock Safety after some law enforcement agency systems have been reportedly accessed by outside agencies without their consent.
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California law requires schools to adopt policies restricting cellphone use during the day, but a new bill proposes requiring bell-to-bell policies for K-8 and ensuring those students don't need phones to do their work.
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We checked in with Warren Sponholtz to hear about his approach to leading Florida IT, how he sees his workforce evolving and how he's planning while tech advances faster than ever.
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The school board for Santa Fe Public Schools has strayed away from developing official AI policy, instead charging staff with developing ongoing guidance, informed by monthly sessions with district teachers.
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The county is acknowledging its past and enhancing transparency into historic property deeds which have had lasting impacts on neighborhoods. Its searchable map activates many thousands of pages of documents.
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In Flathead County, the vote-counting devices offer a swift, accurate, unbiased accounting of votes cast in elections. They empower humans to post election results within 24 hours of polls closing.
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The coalition, which includes the ACLU, the Pinelands Alliance and The Nature Conservancy, is calling on Gov. Mikie Sherrill to halt, for now, approval and construction of large-scale data centers.
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As a result of feedback from students and parents, Simons Middle School in Fleming County, Ky., is not doing away with Chromebooks altogether but more deliberately limiting their use starting this fall.
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