Public Safety
Covering topics such as corrections, criminal justice, emergency management, gun control and police/fire/EMS.
Cleveland wants to send clinicians to some calls. Here’s how some other cities have done something similar.
Legal experts warn the ordinance is likely to face a challenge from the Trump administration.
With 110 deaths this year, legislators want mandatory drowning prevention education for new parents and stricter safety rules for older pools.
A near-empty mobile vaccine clinic reveals a growing mistrust of vaccines and public health experts.
The robot's agility makes it valuable in standoffs and hazardous incidents, but civil liberties groups warn that semi-autonomous robots could reshape policing in troubling ways.
A regional design meant to prevent failures during wildfires never worked in practice.
After decades of bipartisan reforms that prioritized rehabilitation over punishment, states are moving back toward prosecuting younger teens as adults. It contradicts decades of research, and it doesn’t make communities safer.
State lawmakers are pushing to better measure and improve police efforts to close cases.
A Georgia family’s scramble to remain in a better-funded school system shows how costly leases and substandard housing undermine student stability.
With 28 percent of calls tied to general questions or misdirected requests, officials say automation could reduce strain and improve response times.
It’s about governance and whether these systems can avoid reinforcing existing inequities. States, local governments and agencies need to move to embed fairness, transparency and accountability into every stage of AI use.
A recent survey finds over a third of households with children lacked enough food as federal support for food programs falters.
Sunset Mesa residents are pushing for fireproof construction with noncombustible materials to shield entire blocks and attract affordable insurance.
The state is shockingly lax on DUIs, and it isn’t even the worst. But it shouldn’t be surprising that so many people are dying on California’s roads.
The city's yearslong struggle to open sites for homeless people living in vehicles will likely continue after the federal government dismissed the idea as “reprehensible” and “dystopian.”
President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California.
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