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According to sources inside and outside of state government, departments are being asked to identify cuts of 10 percent or more. While the veil of secrecy raises alarm bells for some, the practice is nothing new during budget crunches.
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The system fits into ongoing efforts by the county to address a recent spike in unsheltered homeless people amid California’s ongoing housing crisis.
Michael Martinez has worked for the State Library since 1996. He's spent the last two years as its CIO, working toward making the library's resources more accessible, from anywhere. He'll also surprise you with his latest read.
State lawmakers advanced an ambitious proposal Thursday to prevent broadband providers from hindering or manipulating access to the Internet, bringing the state closer to enacting the strongest net neutrality protections in the country.
During this week's Los Angeles Digital Government Summit, awards were given to the county, the city, special districts and individuals in two main categories: Projects, and Service and Support. Techwire has the winners' names.
As electric scooters have proliferated in California cities this year, a lot of local governments and citizens have voiced increasing concern about some problems their riders can cause — blocking sidewalk access for people with disabilities, riding in places they aren’t supposed to and putting pedestrians in danger. Now Bird, which is based in Santa Monica and has deployed its scooters in about 40 U.S. cities, has released a tool meant to help local government address some of those problems.
After only two iterations, the newest platform is saving the department hours of labor every month.
The emergency office would be required to develop training for officials that would include how to operate technology that can force emergency warnings onto cellphones.
Riverside has named a new chief innovation officer for the city. It's the former chief of information security.
A longtime state IT leader, who helped launch several key training academies in government, is leaving for a position in the private sector.
The city of Napa is trying to add a tech-enabled, personalized experience to its local tourism scene, like what the tech giants of San Francisco and Silicon Valley have already made commonplace in visitors’ lives.
Two Bay Area governments are recruiting candidates to fill key IT executive leadership positions.
FI$Cal Director Miriam Barcellona Ingenito provides a by-the-numbers update on her department's progress.
The measure sent to Gov. Jerry Brown would require the California Highway Patrol to report on how many motorists stopped for impaired driving are allegedly under the influence of marijuana.
Two career positions are open in public-sector IT in Northern California, and the application deadlines are looming.
The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF), a nonprofit that advocates for expansion of broadband, released its 2018 Digital Divide Survey findings, noting that many respondents have access to the Internet only on a smartphone, if at all.
Cybersecurity is the theme for an October event being hosted by California State University at Sacramento in conjunction with the California Department of Technology, the California Office of Emergency Services, the California Military Department and the California Highway Patrol.
Thousands of Sonoma County residents and visitors will receive emergency alerts next month during tests of the county's warning system, nearly one year after county officials weathered widespread criticism for inadequately warning the public about the October firestorm. A national test of the technology is planned later in September.
Last week, several taxpayers took to Twitter to inform others that they had received repeat emails as reminders of prepayment dates with incorrect ID codes. The codes were for other taxpayers, not the recipient, and some people received the emails more than 10 times.
While California has legislation to create an Office of Elections Cybersecurity, partly to push back against "fake news," some other states say such an undertaking is beyond their scope. And some critics says it's not necessary at all.
Napa County is ahead of the Voter’s Choice Act curve, according to Registrar of Voters John Tuteur.
A large California state government department is recruiting for a Business Intelligence Division chief, a position that carries an IT Manager I job classification.
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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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