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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 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."
Los Angeles County is holding a public event to showcase the ways it uses geographic information systems. Vendors are invited.
California finalized a contract with AT&T that provides a contract vehicle to state and local public safety departments.
California's Chief Information Officer Amy Tong and Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Michael Wilkening will discuss past successes and future plans on Nov. 15.
California's votes may take a while to be counted, according to Secretary of State Alex Padilla.
Roughly 17 percent of tickets were purchased on the SMART smartphone app, and 6 percent from discounted "eco-passes" available to college students, military veterans and large employers.
CalCloud has a new interface that replaces the email-based multifactor authentication, according to a Tech Alert issued Friday by the California Department of Technology.
Two apartment complexes in Sacramento are getting early access to a car-sharing program that’s starting small in largely disadvantaged neighborhoods, with plans to spread to other areas.
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.
Ten California municipalities were among those earning top honors in the Digital Cities Survey. What do these efforts have in common? All take the IT department far beyond the role of a mere service provider.
As the second term of Gov. Jerry Brown comes to a close, state Chief Information Officer Amy Tong spoke at NASCIO about her priorities in cybersecurity, procurement, cloud adoption and digital services.
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.
The electric scooter company Lime announced that it has taken some of its scooters off streets in Los Angeles, San Diego and Lake Tahoe due to concerns that their batteries could catch fire.
The Motor Voter program was meant to automatically register voters while renewing their drivers' licenses.
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.
Waymo, the robotic car company created by Google, is poised to attempt a major technological leap in California, where its vehicles will hit the roads in five cities without a human on hand to take control in emergencies.
The California Department of Technology is instructing all top state IT executives to make sure their agencies and departments comply with the state's email threat protection solution if they don't already.
Federal authorities are experimenting with looser regulations on police use of drones, and it's bearing good results so far in a pilot program in one California city.
Businesses, schools, government agencies or others eyeing small, driverless shuttles have a new opportunity to try out the technology during a largely free trial in Sacramento.
David Graham has joined the ranks of similar executives in cities including Sacramento, Riverside, Davis, Long Beach and Rancho Cucamonga.
Los Angeles County is researching ways to use technology to keep hikers safe while enjoying its parks.
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The public workforce system stands at a crossroads. Career services professionals are increasingly tasked with serving harder-to-reach jobseekers under programs like Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA). These front-line staff must juggle verifying unemployment benefits eligibility and providing personalized reemployment coaching, often with limited time and resources. It’s a daunting challenge that raises a critical question: How can we scale support for those who need it most? The answer may lie in Agentic AI and AI-powered agents designed to work autonomously alongside humans which could be a game-changer for workforce development.
AI is helping governments and enterprises modernize aging systems faster while strengthening cybersecurity — an approach reflected in initiatives like Kosmic Eye supporting California’s digital infrastructure.
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