TL 18-05 was a response to AB 434 of 2017, which requires each state entity's director and CIO to post a signed certification on all their public sites certifying that they meet accessibility requirements.
A new report from the state Little Hoover Commission says state government has not kept pace with national, state and even city governments on organizing efforts to address the implications of artificial intelligence.
California's Prison Industry Authority, which provides workforce training to prisoners throughout the state and a catalog of products made within state prisons, is seeking a new chief information officer.
FirstNet's National Public Safety Broadband Network recently rolled out to Los Angeles County's primary first responders. Primary first responders have first access to the network, and extended primary users can gain access if they are considered necessary.
Caltrans updated the Department of Technology and the Broadband Council on its efforts to colocate broadband conduit with highways at Thursday's Broadband Council meeting.
Better communication during and after an emergency, such as California's wildfires, was a central discussion point at the final 2018 Broadband Council meeting.
With more than 8,000 miles of fiber and 20 million users in research and education, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, the nonprofit that connects the California Research and Education Network (CalREN) across schools and educational institutions, wants to fight fires with data.
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has surveyed public- and private-sector representatives to create a list of recommendations for state and local IT procurement improvements.
Among the gaggle of California supplicants from San Diego to Irvine to San Francisco, Los Angeles made the cut of 20 finalists, the lone survivor west of the Rockies.
The GIS-based map can be toggled to include views of individual fires, weather conditions and shelter locations. The map breaks down the amount of acres burned, personnel involved and engines on-site.
With more than 10 million residents, Los Angeles County is always looking for technology solutions to business problems. Vendors who want to work with the county improve their chances of being awarded a bid if they know the following things.
The state Bureau of Cannabis Control wants a vendor that will create "a two-year statewide public awareness and education campaign related to the licensure of commercial cannabis businesses in California."
State agency information officers will gather next week at an IT Executive Council meeting to share feedback from their chief information officers on a draft Open Data Policy from the California Department of Technology. The draft was shared with AIOs and distributed to CalData meeting attendees in October.
The state Department of Health Care Services is ready to begin the discovery and planning phases for two modules that would help update the California Medicaid Management Information System.
Los Angeles County's Office of Child Protection has launched a new website, one of several steps the county is taking to support child protection services.
Los Angeles County supervisors will consider an agenda item Tuesday that could retroactively approve the continued use of its Voter Information Management System licensing and support agreement with ESSVR.
State agencies will soon begin training for use of a new tool, PLAN-IT, to collaborate with CDT and vendors on IT procurement projects. The tool allows for online approval, with the idea being that sharing documents digitally will streamline the process of planning and approving a project.
