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How the City of Canton worked with Wi-Fiber to build a safer and more connected community

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2020, the City of Canton, Ohio set out to build a better, safer, and more connected community. In 2020, Canton’s chief of police, Jack Angelo, wanted to extend public safety monitoring city-wide, saying “Eventually our goal is to have most all of the city covered,” by using Wi-Fiber’s extensive broadband mesh network.

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Voices: The Role of Mobile Printers Grows in Local Government and Public Safety

State Tech Magazine

billion in 2020, according to Emergen Research. Mobile printers — paired with flexible, simultaneous Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity — are frequently used in local government, particularly in public safety, law enforcement and voting.

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Mexico Made Safe Mobility a Human Right — Here’s How Its Streets Can Become Safer

The City Fix

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes of travel. Now, with this new.

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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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Lessons from one state’s effort to modernize its criminal justice system

GCN

New York’s sweeping 2020 law sought to accelerate pre-trial processes with technology upgrades. But the state’s experience offers lessons for other jurisdictions undertaking similar efforts to modernize the justice system.

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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

The unprecedented law, enacted in 1990, affirmed the rights of the disabled, making public spaces, places of employment and transportation less discriminatory. July 26 marks the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by President George H.W.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

In early 2020, the Norton Police Department’s (NPD) on-premises, legacy system, failed them for the last time. 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. Lifesaving services were down.