• 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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• California Tech Agency Reorganization Becomes Law
• BY: Government Technology   |   California   |   July 6, 2012
• Legislation is under consideration that will address details of the California Technology Agency’s move into a new Government Operations Agency . State CIO to maintain direct reporting to governor on IT.

• Twitter Transparency Report Shows Government Requests For User Data
• Source: Huffington Post   |   Nation   |   July 3, 2012
• For the first time ever Twitter has issued a transparency report card that sheds light on how often it's been asked by government officials to delete tweets and hand over user information -- and how frequently the social media site has complied.

• West Virginia's Successes With Online Voting
• Source: Government Technology   |   July 3, 2012
• West Virginia shows that Internet-based voting not only works, but can be made safe against cyber attacks while increasing the return rate for absentee ballots.

• Airbourne Speed Traps Fall Victim to States' Budget Cuts
• Source: AP/MSNBC.com   |   Nation   |   July 2, 2012
• As on the ground technology improves and budget cuts affect funding, many states have cut back or stopped using aircraft for traffic enforcement in recent years.

• Apps Challenge Aims to Improve Detroit Through Technology
• BY: Brian Peteritas   |   June 28, 2012
• Competition will have individuals or teams design applications to tackle the city's problems.

• Pollution Controls Can Be Based on Nonexistent Technologies, Rules California Court
• BY: McClatchy News   |   California   |   June 28, 2012
• Southern California air pollution authorities may require pollution controls based on technologies that do not exist but may be reasonably anticipated, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously.

• Stem Cell Lab to Close in Massachusetts
• Source: Boston Globe   |   Massachusetts   |   June 28, 2012
• A marquee piece of Governor Deval Patrick’s effort to bolster the life sciences industry, the stem cell bank will run out of funding at the end of the year and close.

• State, Local Officials React to Affordable Care Act Ruling
• BY: News Staff   |   Nation   |   June 28, 2012
• What do state and local government officials think about the Supreme Court's decision to uphold most of the federal health-care law? Find out here.
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