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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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A Southern California city is embarking on an ambitious IT agenda, seeking millions of dollars in hardware, software and services.
Governments at all levels — state, county and city — are looking to automate citizen services, with many departments looking to artificial intelligence or natural-language responses.
Sacramento joins Los Angeles County and UC Davis, among other regions, in offering text-to-911 for emergency service.
Los Angeles is expanding the nation's first city-backed cybersecurity lab, which it launched last year, and now it has $3 million in federal grant money to better develop its threat intelligence.
With a perceived lack of voter confidence in vendor-provided solutions, the state may need innovative solutions to ensure that voting is accessible for all Californians, including those with disabilities. But the challenges include balancing accessibility with security.
California's state leadership has been working across departments and with vendors to build workforce development programs to fill vacancies and improve skills in employees already working for the state. The state has just under 11,500 IT employees, but there is still competition among departments and with the private sector to recruit talent.
The California Department of Technology's Office of Digital Innovation is holding a meeting Thursday that will include information about single sign-on, artificial intelligence and a civic user testing portal. It's being offered as a webinar, as well.
Uber and Lyft cars contribute heavily to San Francisco’s traffic slowdowns, especially in the downtown and at night, according to a report being released on Tuesday, which both companies said used a flawed and incomplete approach. The report from the San Francisco County Transportation Authority crunched data from November-December 2010 and the same two months in 2016 to get snapshots of how traffic changed over those six years.
Gov. Jerry Brown announced last month that California would boldly go where no state has gone before and launch its “own damn satellite” to monitor greenhouse gases, in particular methane. But what's that mean for the California IT industry? For state IT governance?
Los Angeles County's Internal Services Department, which manages the county's operations, data center, network and shared services, has a wish list to make customer engagement better, both internally and externally. The department wants to replace the interactive voice response system it uses now.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles gave the public a series of piecemeal explanations as it acknowledged making more than 100,000 errors in recent months in registering Californians to vote. Software problems, it said in May. Human errors from toggling between computer windows, it said in September. Data entry mistakes that were corrected but never saved, it said this month.
A Bay Area city's master plan has opportunities for data analytics, management system.
California's Department of Technology wants to modernize the state's security posture. Peter Liebert, state chief information security officer, lays out the plans to do so.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles says it will implement new quality control on its voter registration process after last week's revelation that as many as 1,500 non-citizens were wrongly registered to vote.
Pilots are underway for the newest iteration of the California Department of Technology's Project Approval Lifecycle.
Procurement changes are being made between the Department of Technology and the Department of General Services.
The county of Sacramento is holding a workshop on its eProcurement system on Thursday.
The midterm elections are just under a month away and Los Angeles County's Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan wants to develop an open source system that can scale to other jurisdictions.
A project focusing on wildfire detection in rural parts of the state focuses on technology.
Los Angeles County CIO Bill Kehoe is turning the corner on his first year as CIO for the county and he still has big plans.
Its Silicon Valley location has long been a boon to the tech-forward city of Fremont, but that proximity has brought with it a significant rise in commuter traffic. Now, city officials hope that joining the Startup in Residence program and leveraging a partnership with the makers of a popular travel app will help them manage gridlock by keeping drivers on the freeway.
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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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