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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. Initially Wi-Fiber’s deployments focused on public safety solutions, such as license plate recognition (LPR). Today, the city is nearly there. Learn more about Wi-Fiber.

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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. This growth underscores the increasingly important role printer mobility and portability are playing across industries, including public services. In just a few years, the global mobile printer market has grown exponentially, from $290 million in 2014 to $2.89

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New Cellular Service Opportunities for First Responders

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

This interview is with Craig Martinez, a public safety advisor to T-Mobile with a long background in law enforcement. They have the most reliable 5G according to umlaut based on crowdsourced user experience data (Sept 2020 to Feb 2021). See 5G device, coverage, & access details at T-Mobile.com.

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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. To revive them, NPD made the decision to go live on the SOMA public safety platform—six months ahead of the scheduled cutover date. Lifesaving services were down.

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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

It was a small pilot, but it demonstrated the ability of data to solve social problems at the community level—linking data from law enforcement, public safety, and health and human services—providing a unified view of the problem from multiple perspectives. We were also able to evolve and iterate.

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?A Road to Trust in Government

Barrett & Greene

Utilizing the resources of the International Association of Public Participation , much time was spent communicating how input for each project would be used in decision-making, who was responsible for making the final decision and then reporting the final decision back to those who had initially engaged with us.

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An Opportunity, not a Threat: Leveraging Increased Police Scrutiny for Reflection and Improvement?

zencity

Immediately following the tragic murder of George Floyd in May of 2020, a cry for structural and meaningful change to policing could be heard across the nation. A 2020 poll showed that Americans’ confidence in the police has dropped to a record low. Since then, public trust in police has slightly increased in 2021, yet remains low.