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Coming to a PC Near You: Florida Town Meetings
Florida held its first 'Cyber Town Meeting' last month, using the World Wide Web to broadcast presentations by Gov. Jeb Bush and other state officials about the impact of information technology on the state.
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Utah Bridges Budget, IT Planning
As technology evolves and people's expectations change, state and local government information technology managers are faced with a widening gap between their budgets and the systems, equipment and services they want to buy.
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Camera Trained on Kentucky Development
Lexington, Ky., residents have the opportunity to keep an eye on a highly awaited construction project without leaving their homes.
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Rand: Tech Aid Helping to Fight Crime
Rand, the public-policy think tank, has issued a report suggesting that federal technology assistance for state and local crime fighters is paying off, although many opportunities exist for enhancing the relationship.
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Companies Unveil E-Mall
Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.
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San Diego County Unveils Child Abduction Web Site
In an effort to fight child abductions, the San Diego County, Calif., district attorney's office has launched a World Wide Web site that includes photos and other information on missing children from the office's longest-running cases.
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Lessons learned
The Year 2000 problem, which came and went with only minor disruptions, may be remembered more for its positive impact on information technology than its catastrophic threat.
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Online Headhunter Eases Job Search
An online job search site in Texas is giving the unemployed another way to look for work and making the job hunt a little easier.
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Alaska Plans Statewide Telecom Program
Alaska, which spends more than $26 million annually on telecommunications products and services, plans to replace a hodgepodge of contracts with a single statewide telecom program.
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Hearings to address tech-worker shortage
A job training work force commission will hold several public hearings this month to examine ways to increase the number of skilled information technology workers in the United States.
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Phoenix Site Proves Popular
A Phoenix city leader showed off his city's World Wide Web site and gave tips on how others can create one like it at a seminar titled 'Building Technology Strategies' at last month's 1999 Congress of Cities.
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Congressional neglect of feds must end
While security assessment services are gaining prominence alongside software products as a standard part of an overall security purchase, at least one vendor is offering virtual assessment services so that agencies don't even have to buy the software.
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Small Town Goes High Tech
As technology evolves and people's expectations change, state and local government information technology managers are faced with a widening gap between their budgets and the systems, equipment and services they want to buy.
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Mitretek's Helping Hand
In addition to helping Maryland devise a statewide public safety strategy, Mitretek Systems, through the Center for Criminal Justice Technology, also is involved in other local, state and federal technology projects.
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Online Legal Research Firm Expands Coverage to 45 States
Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.
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Maryland Cuts Red Tape from Justice Spending
Maryland's state and local crime fighters recently found themselves in an enviable predicament. They had the money to invest in technology, but they just weren't sure how to spend it well.
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San Carlos, Calif., Puts Narrated Presentations on the Web
San Carlos, Calif., last week announced that it had teamed with Presenter.com to put two narrated presentations ? one for small business and the other for the general public ? on the city's World Wide Web site.
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DISA office secures spot in training
Training has surfaced as a critical component of protecting federal information resources against modernday cyberattacks, and one resource for information security training lies in the Defense Information Systems Agency's Infosec Program Management Office.
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