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Dean Gialamas, a familiar face in Southern California IT circles, has been tapped as the next IT bureau chief and CIO for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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In fact, the grand jury found that the county's computer network has been hacked into and breached at least five times between July 2017 and August 2018. In addition, more than half of Marin's cities — Corte Madera, Fairfax, Larkspur, Novato, Sausalito and Tiburon — have had their cybersecurity compromised.
The new head of the Office of Digital Innovation, Udaya Patnaik, was sworn in Monday via online video as friends and colleagues looked on, since many state government offices remain closed during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The county is considering working with a small startup, Uptrust, to use data and predictive analysis to customize the messaging and the frequency of the messages to each of the office’s clients. The pilot would run one year and cost about $100,000.
The California Environmental Protection Agency seeks information from IT vendors on how to modernize a reporting system that was stood up 11 years ago and is nearing end-of-life.
The requirements of the position, classified as in the “client services” area, include at least one year’s experience in an IT Manager I role or seven years’ experience “performing a variety of progressively responsible technical, analytical, supervisory, or managerial tasks in support of computer systems or services in one or more of the major six domains or a closely related or emerging information technology field,” the job posting says.
There's been no movement yet from high levels of state government, following a call from the California Chamber of Commerce to "suspend enforcement" of the California Consumer Privacy Act — but it's been clear for some time that the landmark law could create challenge and opportunity as it ramps up.
The award-winning chief information officer has held sway over tens of millions of dollars in IT and telecom contracts during his reign, overseeing procurement for one of the nation’s largest law enforcement agencies — one in which about 75 percent of its employees wear a badge.
Data has been crucial to informing governments' progress since the first days of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and they're deriving it from private as well as public sources — including SafeGraph, which is working with some of the state's largest agencies.
The California Department of Public Health reports that than one in four Californians has visited a Web portal that curates novel coronavirus (COVID-19) resources for the public — and a special link for those in the IT sector.
"As you start your recovery process, people should be the core of primary transformation; they should be our strength and your stakeholder. Safety, communication, collaboration, trust and continuous engagement should be first, and with flexibility in mind. Everyone is a VIP."
The departments seeking applicants include the California State Teachers Retirement System, the Department of Consumer Affairs and the Department of Motor Vehicles.
The city’s public-facing website is dedicated to COVID-19 resources for residents and businesses. Features include the mapping of available essential services and other timely data.
A state Senate committee referred Senate Bill 1058, the “Digital Divide Relief Plan,” to Appropriations despite opposition from utility companies, industry groups and the California Chamber of Commerce.
Shelley Silvas, a native Californian, began her career in government and education technology more than 20 years ago.
The site lists emergency state procurements over $500,000 related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic; awardees are listed alphabetically by company name.
The California Department of Public Health and the Solano County Department of Information Technology are seeking experienced managers to oversee various IT functions.
The app — or an alternative system that allows for the same type of employee-employer assessments and data reporting — will be required for both private-sector and government employees under Sonoma County's shelter-in-place order as of June 1, as well as mandatory temperature checks for workers.
By managing change and carefully updating long-standing processes under new Director Steve Gordon, the Department of Motor Vehicles is taking strides toward modernization — while achieving technological milestones that have helped it connect to residents during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The working group must present a report to the Legislature by July 1 that would describe potential uses, risks, and benefits of blockchain for state government and business.
The director of the Employment Development Department, Sharon Hilliard, said she shared lawmakers' frustration with claimants' inability to secure benefits and indicated the agency continues to work on remedies.
Los Angeles County's chief information officer and the city's chief data officer spoke in a webinar about the practical meanings and applications of "digital transformation" -- and how vendors can play a role.
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