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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 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has a new mobile app that residents can use to report issues and find inmate information or a station.
Long Beach has named Lea Eriksen as its new director of technology and innovation. She is a veteran public servant with roughly 20 years of experience working for local government, including economic development, budget, finance and, of course, technology.
Democrats in the California Legislature and a wealthy San Francisco developer on Thursday reached a tentative agreement to enact major new consumer data privacy rules in exchange for the withdrawal of a measure privacy activists were poised to get on the November ballot.
The Municipal Information Systems Association of California has opened its Excellence in IT Practices Awards Programs for submissions. The program awards IT agencies at the county level at each conference.
Key players in the state and local technology industry are often moving. Here are a few who have accepted new positions.
Humboldt County has launched an enhanced website aimed at increasing access to its services for users with disabilities, both with and without access to assistive technology devices.
San Jose is seeking its first chief data officer, and the concept of open data is considered a top priority.
A dozen members of the Municipal Information Systems Association of California have won their credentials as Certified Government Chief Information Officers.
There was a time when Microsoft meant the opposite of open source. The question of whether that’s still true is the crux of the disagreement between open source believers who are excited by the tech giant’s recent $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub and those who are dismayed by it.
Fi$Cal will finalize its department rollouts and its efforts to move security in-house.
Electronic billboards that flash new ads every few seconds have sprouted up by the hundreds along California freeways in recent years, much to the alarm of environmentalists and traffic-safety experts. Now the Brown administration thinks California can make a profit, sending lawmakers a report that says it is “feasible” to allow commercial ads on state-operated electronic message signs along freeways in a test program.
The California Department of Technology has issued a notice, in the form of an official Technology Letter, that all state agencies and entities have just over a year to submit their updated incident reporting and response plans, Technology Recovery Plans and corresponding processes and procedures to comply with new security requirements.
Procurement decisions for state IT projects are fairly well-established and documented — lots of thought goes into how responses to requests for proposals will be evaluated and how the contracts will be awarded. But how do we evaluate the method we choose for implementing a new system? How do we make the “best decision for our family?”
MISAC, the Municipal Information Systems Association of California, has opened registration for the 2018 Conference.
The California Department of Technology announced this month that seven new vendors had been added to the Pre-Qualified Vendor Pool, bringing to 30 the number of firms having that credential in seeking state IT contracts. Techwire queried some of those firms, as well as one that's already been in the pool, to find out what the qualification process was like, whether it was tougher to qualify than they had anticipated, and how they expect it to help their firms.
California's new fiscal year begins on July 1 and it is expected to have a record $200 billion budget.
As part of its ongoing work on California’s food assistance program GetCalFresh, the civic tech group Code for America (CfA) recently conducted extensive user-centric research aimed at modifying eligibility expectations.
Fresno's solar capacity was estimated at 343 watts per person. Only Honolulu, Hawaii, at more than 606 watts, ranked higher in the U.S. in the per capita estimates.
The city of San Jose announced agreements with AT&T, Verizon and Mobilitie that will bring better cell and Internet service, hundreds of miles of fiber and millions of dollars in private-sector investment.
Commentary: Many experts from government and industry say that although California wasn't fully ready to adopt an agile approach, that shouldn’t stop officials from moving forward.
Beginning Monday, Techwire will publish a variety of stories examining several aspects of the transition from Waterfall methodology to the Agile approach. These pieces will include insiders' commentaries, industry voices and some nuggets of news related to one of the most significant procedural and philosophical changes to affect state IT governance in years.
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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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