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Testimony of NYU Furman Center Senior Fellow Mark Willis Before the Rent Guidelines Board

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Willis, Senior Policy Fellow at the NYU Furman Center presented research findings at a hearing of the NYC Rent Guidelines Board , highlighting complicated trends in the city’s affordable housing stock since the passage of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA) in 2019.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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Forrester study commissioned by AWS estimates an ROI of 33% from data integration

AWS Public Sector Blog

A single community went from 28 fatal overdoses in January through March of 2019 to zero in April and May as a result of the coordinated actions of law enforcement, public safety, health services, and community leaders. In Virginia, data integration helped battle opioid addiction.

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Cybersecurity: A Menu of State Priorities

GovLoop

His office also has worked toward a whole-of-state security approach, as per a 2019 North Dakota law that gave the cyberteam command-and-control over cybersecurity in all branches of state government. “Controls that we put in, historically, to try to prevent … problems can now very easily be bypassed with AI,” Gregg said.

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How the Norton Police Department saves time and money with AWS Public Sector Partner SOMA Global

AWS Public Sector Blog

The deployment and results SOMA is a leading technology partner providing critical response and operating software solutions for law enforcement, first responder, and government agencies. Prior to 2019, NPD’s on-premises system was failing the agency in workflows and other important day-to-day agency tasks.

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European Health Data Space will enable health innovation through secure data sharing

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2019, the French government passed legislation transforming the healthcare system by establishing a digital health space (ENS). Germany has proposed its own national law, the Health Data Use Act (GDNG), to improve access to healthcare data. The electronic patient record (EHR) will serve as the central hub for healthcare data.

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

6:18-CV-06772-MAT, 2019 WL 2192502, at *6 (W.D.N.Y. May 21, 2019) (“[D]og owners forfeit many of these possessory interests when they allow their dogs to run at large, unleashed, uncontrolled and unsupervised.” 18-CV-04189-ARR-PK, 2019 WL 1406647, at *7 (E.D.N.Y. 28, 2019) (in turn quoting Dziekan , 376 F. Hall , No.

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