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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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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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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.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. Although the rate of foreclosure in Cuyahoga County had declined as of 2020, much remedial work remains unfinished. Up to January 2020, the Cuyahoga Land Bank was still receiving approximately 100 vacant and abandoned parcels per month into its inventory through the HB 294 tax foreclosure law.

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Untapped feedback at our fingertips: a Former Police Chief’s Response to the Recent Police-Public Contact Survey

zencity

Law enforcement has become much better at utilizing data to make informed decisions in recent decades. Law enforcement relies on crime data to identify trends and deploy resources accordingly, to use in budget formulation and planning, and to assess the efficacy of crime reduction efforts. About 21% (53.8

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. 5 (2020): 823-842.

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You Can Take It to the Bank: Federal Reserve System Resources for CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Federal Reserve System was signed into law in 1913 by President Woodrow Wilson. Together, they work to promote the effective operation of the U.S. economy and the overall public interest.

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