Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 28, 2024

So, what can Government departments and other public bodies do to ensure their data processing remains on the right side of the law? The implications of such a solution for data sovereignty laws are exciting. What is data? And what does that mean for data sovereignty?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Cost, resilience, and performance are non-functional requirements that are often at tension with each other.” — Werner Vogels, The Frugal Architect, Law III Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. Unchallenged Success Leads to Assumptions.” — The Frugal Architect, Law VII Frugality does not imply rigidity.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The new law increased the number of families that can receive financial assistance for childcare by increasing eligibility from 350% of the federal poverty level to 575%. That’s a big difference and it’s the result of some dramatic changes in both policy and process.

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GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

Government Regulation The federal government has some laws related to sector-specific data privacy. At the state level, California enacted the first state privacy law in 2018 and, via ballot initiative, established a more comprehensive version in 2022. Congress has considered, but not enacted, broader privacy legislation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." From the article: According to a 2018 Johns Hopkins University study, every 10% increase where alcohol outlets were located, there was also a 4.2% DC did that in 2009.

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 9, 2022

You can see in the image the information that came up shows the county has adopted both the 2018 International Building Code (IBC) and the 2018 International Residential Code (IRC). In the example in the image, I have clicked on Custer county, Montana.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

In August 2018, Governor Northam appointed him the chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Law enforcement personnel could identify spikes in overdoses and send their task force to area hospitals to interview individuals and determine where the drugs were sourced.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

-based ZeroEyes , works by identifying brandished guns and notifying ZeroEyes operation centers, where human analysts determine whether an AI-detected threat is accurate before alerting local law enforcement. ” ZeroEyes was founded in 2018 by a team of Navy SEALs and technologists, according to its website.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 2, 2023

This viewer , which draws from the 2018 National Climate Assessment and describes anticipated climate impacts at the regional level, is a good starting point. Users can filter resources by popularity; science; plans and planning guides; law and regulation; funding; and case studies.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works. doi: 10.1002/joc.7285

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 8, 2024

We estimate that if all homeowners were subject to the citywide average effective tax rate during Fiscal Year 2018, homeowners in the neighborhoods with the largest share Black population would have paid about $17 million less in property taxes per year, and the quartile with the smallest share Black population would have paid $10 million more.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 23, 2024

Council decriminalizes Metro fare evasion: ‘I’m sad that’s Metro’s losing money, but I’m more sad about what’s happening to black people.’ ," Washington Post , 2018, " Metro cracks down on fare evasion in D.C., And it's a point missed by the social justice types who fueled the decriminalization of fare evasion (" D.C.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 28, 2024

Germany has proposed its own national law, the Health Data Use Act (GDNG), to improve access to healthcare data. Ireland has taken a proactive approach to enabling better use of health data while protecting patient privacy through legislation like the Data Protection Act 2018 , which aligns with GDPR.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 25, 2023

Speaking from a small office-like studio at the Getty, where he had a nine-month residency ending in June, Baeza called his subjects “unruly forms” or “fugitive bodies” who don’t conform to norms or abide by laws. Some seem to be morphing into sea creatures or mythic birds; others are on the cusp of flight.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 14, 2022

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

The cloud’s carbon footprint was estimated to be over 2% of global electricity production According to research from Yale in 2018, the cloud’s carbon footprint was estimated to be over 2% of global electricity production, with more recent data suggesting it’s now 3%.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

While not all states have mandatory recycling laws, whether for disposables or organic waste, most cities and counties have some sort of voluntary or required household recycling program, separate from requirements for commercial recycling. In 2022, all California cities and counties will be legally required to recycle organic waste.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws. That’s no coincidence, experts say. Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Radiology centers face many challenges, like shortages in personnel and budget; interoperability issues between different IT systems and long-term storage of images; and strict laws and regulations regarding IT security and data protection. In 2018, this platform, called HealthDataSpace, was migrated to AWS.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And the GMU campus at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which has the policy and law schools, and other programs. Faculty creating a cluster, having bright children in schools, supporting community institutions, etc.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

Comparing redevelopment outcomes in central Dallas tax increment financing districts ," Land Use Policy (2021) -- " Role of Sports Facilities in the Process of Revitalization of Brownfields ," IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering (2017) == Economic impact of individual spending by sports patrons.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

Note to fellow AWPA-ers: these comments provide a valuable opportunity for self-evaluation in 2018). But one commenter wondered why PMRA had not taken a similar stance when North Carolina passed a law in 2013 that undercut voting rights that disproportionately affected minority citizens (subsequently invalidated by the U.S.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

JUNE 25, 2020

2561, 2562 (2018). Although the Clause prohibits the government from punishing or withholding benefits based on one's religious beliefs, the Clause does not entitle citizens to an exemption from a generally applicable law solely due to their religious beliefs. cannot ban drive-in services). First Amendment. See Sause v. Bauer , 138 S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This was the only working repair stand and air pump on the stretch of the trail I rode, probably because it was both newer and sponsored by a law firm. And bike repair stands and air pumps--although most were broken. Facilities such as these should be maintained as part of a trail, rather than left to degrade.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

14 A separate calculation by the Urban Institute, an MH supporter, from 2018 claims manufactured homes are 35 to 47 percent cheaper per square foot than site-built homes. without any qualification as to whether the underlying land is owned or rented), and how the evidence shows that, based on data from 1995 to 2018, it appreciated at 3.4

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 27, 2022

Although the New York Metro Area’s population has grown by millions between 1980 and 2018, Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk’s share of residents has decreased from 24.5 times from 1990 to 2018. percent to 19.2 The median rent of a housing unit in Westchester County increased by roughly 2.5

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). Gordon 2018. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457. Flooding Facebook: the use of social media during the Queensland and Victorian floods. Escaleras, M.,

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

OCTOBER 8, 2020

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"), SB 1790, 133 Stat 1198, into law. Trish Sifka , Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group. United States , 889 F.3d 3d 978, 981 (9th Cir. It found that it regrettably had to rule that Feres barred the suit.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties. Drawing on these data in the period between 2013 and 2018, it appears that there is not a strong correlation between income inequality and democratic backsliding.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 4, 2022

For the 2020-2021 academic year, public schools had to implement various policies regarding social distancing and masking to be in accordance with the new federal, state, and local laws. To control for pre-pandemic changes to school enrollments, I include school enrollment growth rates from the academic year starting in 2018.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted. There is tension in the federal laws on parks and public lands, between access and protection, including keeping some lands natural, or wilderness. They were closed during a 2013 shutdown. Wilderness.

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