NEBRASKA CITY AWARDED DHS ITEP GRANT
South Sioux City, Neb. was awarded a $457,225 grant from the Department of Homeland Security, one of 12 communities nationwide to share 9 million in Information technology Evaluation Program (ITEP) funding for improved information sharing demonstration projects. The grant will help the city build on an existing security and communications network in order to expand surveillance to water and wastewater facilities, and will upgrade wireless access for the police department.
Source: "South Sioux City to test security" by Paul Hammel; The Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, 22 Sept. 2004: B2
MASSACHUSETTS INTELLIGENCE FUSION CENTER BEING FORMED
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts plans to establish a terrorism intelligence "fusion center" that will gather and disseminate information to and from local law enforcement agencies statewide. The center will be based at the Massachusetts State Police headquarters in Framingham, with an analyst set to be hired using funds from the Executive Office of Public Safety.
Source: "Terrorism intelligence center will connect local cops to feds
OKLAHOMA CITY PLANS WI-FI NETWORK
As part of its $21 million public safety information systems upgrade,
Source: “City to install wireless network; Wi-Fi to serve emergency needs” by Jim Stafford; The Daily Oklahoman (
JEFFERSON COUNTY, MO. GETS LAPTOP GRANT
The Jefferson County, Mo. Sheriff's Office has received a $248,356 federal grant to equip 31 patrol cars with global positioning system (GPS) tracking devices and mobile laptop computers to help in the fight against methamphetamine labs. Deputies will be able to use the computers to run their own criminal database searches from their cruisers, with the GPS locators improving their safety.
Source: “Sheriff's office enlists technology to battle methamphetamine operations in county” by Tim Rowden;
IOWA COMPUTER CRIME TASK FORCE GETS GRANT
The
Source: “Grant will help train agents to tackle computer crimes” by J. Janeczko Jacobs; The Des Moines (Iowa) Register, 27 Sept. 2004: 4B
ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y. MOST WANTED LIST NABS FUGITIVE
A landlord searching online for information on a delinquent tenant found her listed on the Rockland County, N.Y. Sheriff's Department's "Most Wanted" Web site. After giving police the address of the apartment he rented the woman in Warwick, N.Y., she was arrested for violating her probation on a felony forgery conviction.
Source: “Fugitive profiled on Web is caught; Landlord spots forger on sheriff's 'Most Wanted' site” by Steve Lieberman; The Journal News (Westchester County, N.Y.), 18 Sept. 2004: 1A
