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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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One of the top IT executives in California's public sector has been singled out for a national award recognizing "exceptional contributions in state government."
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.
In what's been described as the "most significant tech acquisition of 2018," IBM has announced its intention to acquire open-source software company Red Hat for $33 billion, pending approvals.
State government departments are recruiting for three key IT leadership positions, with application deadlines coming soon.
A recently formed business that was created from the merger of three gov tech companies has announced that it's closing its only California office in March — but it's expecting that most of its employees in the state will remain and work remotely.
A California airport authority is looking for ways to better passenger experiences by tracking movement data.
California state CIO Amy Tong says she's working with state agencies to adopt a more proactive stance when it comes to cybersecurity, seeing the funding "as a preventative cost."
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.
Trinity Technology Group has hired two new people for its Capture and Marketing Team.
State cybersecurity authorities are warning of a potential email phishing scam in which the attacker is trying to gain Bidder Credentials.
As a regulatory entity, the California Department of Technology is always looking for new ways to recruit and train talent. State CIO Amy Tong has said the competition for IT staff between the public and private sectors bodes well for the level of talent.
The vice chairman of the state Assembly's Transportation Committee publicly called Tuesday for the immediate resignations of Department of Motor Vehicles Director Jean Shiomoto and Department of Technology Director Amy Tong, citing the problems plaguing the DMV's Motor Voter program.
Los Angeles County IT executives will discuss strategies, opportunities and the procurement process at the next Techwire Member Briefing, scheduled for Nov. 8. In addition to learning about departments' priorities, attendees will learn how to register for the county’s Enterprise Services Master Agreement (ESMA) and will have an opportunity to ask questions of the presenters.
Los Angeles County has been building systems that harness data to integrate records and service use of residents into one centralized and mobile app. The goal is to make information available countywide, allowing all departments to deliver better services.
State CIO Amy Tong told her peers from across the nation Tuesday that California is in the midst of a digital transformation.
As part of a state performance audit of the beleaguered Department of Motor Vehicles, California's Department of Finance has rolled out a Web page specifically to gather comments from the public and from DMV employees themselves about the agency.
The Department of Motor Vehicles, which has been automatically registering customers to vote since the spring, will now complete a manual review of a sample of those registrations each day before sharing them with the Secretary of State's Office to be added to the voter rolls.
The California Department of Technology recently upgraded its employee training facilities at the Office of Professional Development. The office needed technology that could interface with any equipment, especially because vendors who offer training to state employees often bring equipment or data to the classes on their own hardware.
Vendors can provide training on products or skill sets when the state does not have the capacity to build a curriculum.
A longtime local government official who led technology, innovation and community development efforts in several cities is joining Oracle to work on a renewed push into public-sector software. The move brings Oracle a recognized local government voice in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a person who has a lot of experience with a company Oracle recently began competing directly against: Accela.
After last summer’s devastating Carr Fire burned 230,000 acres in Northern California, state and regional water boards staff were already strategizing on how they would respond. Because of the fire’s sheer sprawl and geographic complexity, one of the first tools they turned to was geographic information systems (GIS) in figuring out which areas would be most amenable to being treated for erosion control, one of the after-effects of wildfire.
The dispute centered on an emerging area of contention in criminal courts, where the use of sophisticated forensic tools that rely on computer algorithms is becoming more common.
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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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