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John Roussel, the driving force behind the California Department of Public Health’s IT operations, is retiring at the end of April. His departure punctuates a more than two-decade career in state IT.
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The Judicial Council's new Strategic Plan for Technology is set to continue modernizing California's courts.
A short video focusing on how a small drone was used to completely map the Paradise fire disaster illustrates the value of the technology.
Current and former federal, state and local officials discussed whether state-level innovation and technology would be better served by having the state chief information officer rejoin the governor's Cabinet under the Newsom administration.
He spent his years with the state overseeing the development of new applications on the Oracle platform and a migration from the legacy system to Sun Solaris Servers.
San Jose officials voted early this morning to approve a $110 million public land sale to Google, a key step to advance the tech giant's expansion plans that would transform the city's downtown, despite vociferous protests that led to the rare closing of the council's chambers.
Los Angeles County's Internal Services Department has been moving county departments to an off-premises data center and migrating to a hybrid cloud architecture.
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California's Judicial Council, the policy body constitutionally responsible for enforcing the impartial administration of justice by the state’s judicial branch, has released its Strategic Plan for Technology.
Techwire has added some new Insider tools to the website dashboard for members, the latest being a detailed, clickable breakdown of the state budget. Future versions of this tool will include department and agency contacts, bids and opportunities and organizational charts for targeted IT personnel and line-of-business leaders.
Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom's All in California team of transition ambassadors will include at least 25 current and former congressional representatives, state senators, state officials, county leaders and mayors from around the state, some of whom may guide his new administration's work on innovation and technology.
New guidelines required by the state and developed by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services should offer best practices for emergency alerting and evacuation during disasters such as wildfires like the Camp Fire.
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.
In the wake of allegations that Chief Information Officer Jonathan Reichental broke a state gifts law by taking numerous trips on the dime of companies associated with telecom firms, some residents are calling for a halt to cell tower projects whose approval they say he may have influenced. The city denies any wrongdoing.
Assemblyman Kevin Kiley says it's likely the Legislature will scrutinize law and policy around artificial intelligence in 2019, introduce new legislation on privacy, and monitor state cybersecurity.
California's Public Utilities Commission has planned a wildfire technology innovation summit, with private and state entities.
A network of infrared cameras, linked to servers and the cloud, is being used across California's forests as an early warning system to try to prevent the fast-moving wildfires that have plagued the state in the last couple of years.
Nevada County, population 100,000, was one of five counties in the state that signed up to be guinea pigs for the Voters Choice Act project — an initiative to use technology to centralize and streamline voting. The county CIO says it was hard, it was stressful, and it was a success.
How Verizon and Sacramento approach their partnership to deliver solutions like 5G, free Wi-Fi in city parks and digital kiosks may evolve, but neighborhood-level issues and the importance of the underlying 4G and 5G infrastructure won't change, officials from the company and the city said recently.
It's difficult to know exactly where Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom's administration will land on technology and public-private partnerships, but his 2013 book, “Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government," offers more than a few indications of his perspective on tech and innovation.
Management errors by San Diego city officials have delayed a crucial upgrade to software for tracking development projects and sharply increased the cost of the upgrade, a new audit says.
In a recent analysis of the cost of elections in 10 California counties, Techwire used figures that depicted San Mateo County's per-voter cost as significantly higher than it actually was. The county's elections chief pushed back, providing figures showing that the cost was only a fraction of what we reported.
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