• New York Gov. Cuomo Defies Vow of Transparency with Elusive Emails
• Source: New York Times   |   New York   |   July 17, 2012
• While campaigning, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo vowed to maintain a transparent administration, but his executive chamber prides itself on leaving few footprints.

• Florida Can Use Federal Database to Help Scrub Voting Rolls
• BY: Government Technology   |   Florida   |   July 17, 2012
• The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program is a Web-based database that allows agencies to ensure that only those entitled to benefits receive them.

• Arizona to Join 24 States with Cyberstalking Laws
• BY: Government Technology   |   Arizona   |   July 16, 2012
• Arizona is updating its stalking laws to include modern technologies like email and text messaging.

• Thousands of Colorado Wildfire Evacuation Calls Failed
• Source: AP/NOCO5   |   Colorado   |   July 12, 2012
• More than 20,000 evacuation calls were never delivered to residents in the path of a wildfire that destroyed about 350 homes around Colorado Springs last month, records show.
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• Smart911 Online Citizen Profiles to Help D.C. Emergency Responders
• Source: Washington Post   |   District of Columbia   |   July 12, 2012
• When someone calls 911, information stored in a previously created online profile — such as photographs, the presence of seniors or people with disabilities, or the locations of gas valves — is displayed on the dispatcher’s computer screen.
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• 'Nuclear Free' Cities Abandon Cause to Keep Afloat
• Source: New York Times   |   Nation   |   July 11, 2012
• More than 130 communities across the United States have declared themselves “nuclear-free” in the last 30 years, most enacting measures rich in symbolism but low on clout that result in little more than a sign at the outskirts of town announcing that nuclear weapons are not welcome.
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• Cybersecurity Bill Compromise Could Be on the Way
• BY: Government Technology   |   Nation   |   July 10, 2012
• Latest legislation may represent middle ground in online security debate.

• Sex Offenders Must Disclose Status on Social Media Under New Jersey Bill
• Source: New Jersey Star-Ledger   |   New Jersey   |   July 10, 2012
• While some social networking websites, including Facebook, ban sex offenders, state Sen. Christopher Bateman wants to clamp down even more by making them disclose their convictions as part of their profiles or face a possible prison sentence and a steep fine.

• Cyber-Bullying Law Signed in New York
• Source: Reuters   |   New York   |   July 10, 2012
• New York teachers who learn that a student has been bullied online will be required to report the incident to school administrators within one day, under a law signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

• San Diego Pilot Curbs Graffiti
• BY: Brian Peteritas   |   San Diego   |   July 9, 2012
• Taking pictures of graffiti with GPS-enabled cameras and uploading them into a database has proven successful.
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• New Jersey ACLU App for Recording Police
• BY: Government Technology   |   Nation   |   July 9, 2012
• Video footage will be sent to the American Civil Liberties Union and stored on a secure server.

• Public Salaries Revealed on New Arkansas Website
• BY: Government Technology   |   Arkansas   |   July 9, 2012
• Transparency portal features contracts, expenditures and other key financial data.
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• FBI Shutdown of Some Internet Servers Could Leave Some without Service
• Source: AP/St. Louis Post-Dispatch   |   Nation   |   July 9, 2012
• At 12:01 a.m. EDT, the FBI turned off the Internet servers that were functioning as a temporary safety net to keep infected computers online for the past eight months. The court order the agency had gotten to keep the servers running expired, and it was not renewed.

• DHS Terrorist Biological Attack Detector Program Plagued by Failures
• Source: Los Angeles Times   |   Nation   |   July 9, 2012
• BioWatch air samplers have been installed inconspicuously at street level and atop buildings in cities across the country — ready, in theory, to detect pathogens that cause anthrax, tularemia, smallpox, plague and other deadly diseases. But has produced dozens of false alarms in Los Angeles, Detroit, St. Louis, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere, a Los Angeles Times investigation found.

• California Senate Keeps High-Speed Rail Alive
• Source: Los Angeles Times   |   California   |   July 9, 2012
• The state Senate authorized initial funding for California's high-speed rail project, handing a victory to Gov. Jerry Brown and the Obama administration, which have been pushing hard for the first-in-the-nation bullet train.
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