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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 California Health and Human Services Agency is recruiting for two significant IT positions, one with the Department of Health Care Services and the other with the Office of Systems Integration.
Police in recent years have tapped into a vast database of license plate images to track drivers and solve crimes. Few people know, however, that Sacramento County welfare fraud investigators have been using that same data since 2016.
AppDynamics, encouraged by the growth of its business and opportunities for more in the West, promotes a regional sales manager to oversee SLED in five Western states.
Los Angeles County's rail system will be the first in the United States to deploy body scanners that can detect suicide vests and other improvised explosives. The scanners resemble a small trunk on wheels and can scan people from 30 feet away.
If there’s false or misleading information circulating about California’s voting system, the state’s registered voters could get an email warning them about it in November.
The Capital Region AR VR Accelerator is launching in Sacramento this month.
Tim Harris, a Sacramento native who was the CEO of a public relations and communications agency for the past six years, has joined DialSource as Director of Marketing.
The former chief information officer for California Health and Human Services’ Office of Systems Integration, Peter Kelly, has taken a position with CGI Group in the Sacramento area.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was scheduled to vote today on whether to approve funding a phishing training simulator.
California is known for its sand, sun and surf — but with surf comes sharks. There have been more than 45 shark attacks off of California's coastline in the last three years. One company wants to reduce that.
Drones and aircraft equipped with infrared and other technology are helping California fire crews by offering a real-time bird's-eye view — even through smoke and flame — of what's happening on the ground.
A yearlong project by the Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department has reached fruition with the rollout of a slick new multimedia website showcasing the amenities at the county’s 182 parks. The chief information officer of Parks and Rec, Mohammed Al Rawi, told Techwire how it felt to bring new technology to bear with new ideas. The site went live Friday.
San Jose and Los Angeles are among the California cities seeking ways to safely regulate the wave of dockless scooters as they proliferate. Geofencing and permits are among the options.
California's Independent System Operator (Cal ISO) is looking to become a regional leader in the energy market. The Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015 made Cal ISO into "a regional organization to promote the development of regional electricity markets in the Western states."
California election officials are guarding their voting machines and registration lists against Russian hackers — although no one has spotted any. "I operate under the assumption that hacking is actually happening and California is a target," Secretary of State Alex Padilla says.
The Chief Information Officer for the California Secretary of State's Office, Rita Gass, will be the speaker next month at Techwire's Member Briefing in Sacramento.
Newport Beach has six ongoing "smart city" programs and is looking to create more. Most of the solutions that are underway have been created by the city's IT team and cost very little, outside of labor.
One of the world’s largest accounting firms chose the tried-and-true traditional option when the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration asked firms to start using a new online system for filing business sales tax returns. KPMG decided that for now, it was better off submitting tax returns on paper through the mail.
The Registrar of Voters website, which had been redesigned to feature more graphs and other visual elements to make the data more accessible to the general public, remained inaccessible most of the night.
Legislation that would require a modernization effort at every state department in California is sitting in the Senate Appropriations Committee's Suspense File.
Mineta San Jose International Airport has used facial-recognition technology since June for passengers arriving from other countries. Beginning this fall, that will be expanded to include all departing international travelers, officials said.
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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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