Data dashboards, predictive policing, civilian oversight, social programs reduce crime, regulating AI-generated calls, Louisiana law enforcement not reporting crime stats, police IT delays access to domestic violence court orders, intersection of AI and criminal justice, body cams, ShotSpotter data leaked, encrypted scanners, town asks for more transparency from police department, juvenile courts transparency, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
APD has a new data dashboard – is it reliable? (KXAN) see also: Aurora Police Department releases data in a step towards transparency. Community wants to see more (CPR News)
Lawmakers Want Pause on Federal Funds for Predictive Policing (reason)
A bill curtailing civilian oversight of police has passed the Florida House (WMFE)
New CA data: Social programs reduce crime (Public News Service)
How law enforcement can use data from cell phones or smartwatches to solve crimes (KCRG)
FCC declares authority and intent to regulate AI-generated calls under the TCPA (Mayer Brown)
What does AI regulation in policing look like? (Crime De-coder)
CRIME RATE
Norfolk police chief meets with community to discuss crime reduction (13NewsNow)
Why many Louisiana law enforcement agencies aren’t reporting crime stats (Business Report)
Alamance-Burlington School System deputy superintendent charged with failure to report crime against juvenile, suspended with pay (Queen City News)
CRIM-TECH
New NT Police crime data IT system SerPro delaying domestic violence court orders, says union president (ABC Australia)
The Need for Transparency and Interpretability at the Intersection of AI and Criminal Justice (Duke.edu)
Springfield Police Division to roll out body cameras (Springfield News-Sun)
CentralSquare, RapidSOS Launch Public Safety Partnership (GovTech)
Privacy advocates respond to leaked data of ShotSpotter gunshot detection (Wisconsin Examiner)
Bill would open encrypted scanners to media (Daily Record)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Fight over Madison police records in Barbara Hamburg murder case sparks CT Supreme Court ruling (CT Insider)
Colorado town of Bennett asks for more transparency from Adams County law enforcement (CBS News)
University of Georgia First Amendment Clinic suing Atlanta Police Foundation over ‘Cop City’ records (Decaturish)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Bill on juvenile courts transparency advances to full House (KWCH)