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Microsoft Turned Down Facial-Recognition Sales on Human Rights Concerns

PALO ALTO, California — Microsoft Corp recently rejected a California law enforcement agency’s request to install facial recognition technology in officers’ cars and body cameras due to human rights concerns, company President Brad Smith said on Tuesday. Microsoft concluded it …

Ohio Will Expand Law Enforcement Simulator Use

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is announcing expanded efforts to train Ohio’s law enforcement officers in firearms and car-chase safety. DeWine’s office said Monday that demand from law-enforcement agencies has led to plans to increase the number of training simulators …

Kentucky Law Enforcement Group Takes Aim at Constables

Kentucky should abolish the office of constable or strip away its law-enforcement powers because it has outlived its usefulness and is no longer essential to modern law-enforcement work, a group said Thursday. The move comes after a yearlong study by …

Cameras in New Jersey Jitneys Valuable to Law Enforcement

Surveillance cameras installed in Atlantic City, N.J.,’s jitneys a year ago have proved to be a valuable tool for law enforcement. One camera caught a fatal hit-and-run accident last weekend. The accident initially was blamed on the jitney driver, but …

Group Says it Hacked US Law Enforcement Websites

The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it has hacked into some 70 law enforcement websites across the southern and central United States in retaliation for arrests of its sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain. The hacking group also claimed …

Wisconsin Officials: Racine’s Rash of Fires May be Arson

Law enforcement officials in Racine are investigating whether a serial arsonist is behind a rash of suspicious fires on the south side of the city and in Mount Pleasant. The Journal Times of Racine reports that since June 6, police …

Florida Judge Questions Validity of Red Light Tickets by Police

A Broward County, Fla. judge has ruled that law enforcement officers cannot ticket drivers for running red lights. It’s another piece of legal wrangling in the ongoing dispute over red light cameras. County Judge Fred Berman ruled recently that tickets …