It's one of the many ideas and practices that Craig Fugate, the agency's outgoing leader, hopes the Trump administration will adopt. Among the others: rescuing pets.
The state is on track to enacting first-in-the-nation rules about how banks respond to cyberattacks. Some say they're misguided.
The idea that needle exchanges encourage illegal drug use is fading just as rapidly as the programs are expanding.
Cities have struggled with diversity in the fire service for decades. But there's a lot they could be doing to improve things.
The presidential election disappointed advocates, but there's plenty of momentum in the states.
They’re stepping down in cities across the country, opening up opportunities for major change.
The Dallas police chief was hailed as a national leader, yet his own cops wanted him to quit.
Municipalities spend more than a billion dollars a year on settlements and claims from citizens. Some are trying hard to rein in those costs.
Only one state's voters rejected easing access to the drug.
As Congress and legislatures stall on the issue, voters are doing what they can to keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous people.
Voters generally agreed to raise the age limits -- but not do away with them altogether.
Voters in three states approved "Marsy's Law," which ensures victims and their families are informed of developments in a criminal case.
New Mexico voters may have energized a national movement to reform the criminal justice policies that keep lower-income Americans locked up.
Americans' support for capital punishment has been waning, but you wouldn't know that by looking at Tuesday's election results.
More than 80 percent of voters approved amendments on the ballot in both states.
Judicial elections weren't a clear sweep for either party.
The 2015-2016 state supreme court election cycle has attracted big money from outside groups.
The federal government is closing them, but that doesn’t mean states will.
That age-old debate got a fresh hearing in Georgia.
Judges are starting to strike down the laws, calling them racist. But their survival depends on the outcome of the November election.
There are many factors that go into staffing decisions -- some of which fail to take agencies' actual workloads into account.
But there's a major difference between today’s efforts and the tobacco lawsuits of the 1990s.
The laws are meant to make it easier for ex-felons to get hired. But they're having the opposite impact on some people who don't even have a criminal history.
An evenly divided court could decide the fate of many cases watched closely by state and local officials.
Community paramedicine, which can drastically reduce unnecessary ER visits, could be the future of emergency care.
Poor criminal defendants rarely get an attorney who has time to adequately defend them. Some states, spurred by lawsuits, are starting to address the issue.
We ask it to deal with a lot of problems for which it is ill-equipped. We need to narrow its focus and scale up other institutions.
The people who decide criminals’ freedom are often ill-equipped to make informed decisions. That’s where risk assessment tools come in, but they aren't always used.
The latest management system isn't going to get the job done. Ultimately, it's about leadership and managers.
Some say police officers are increasingly reluctant to intervene in dangerous situations, fueling a crime wave in cities throughout the nation. Others say that's just not true.