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Liana Bailey-Crimmins, CIO and director of the California Department of Technology, announced late Friday afternoon that she is leaving the role.
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Marin’s state senator has cleared a key hurdle on legislation to increase online transparency at the state’s more than 2,000 independent special districts. Last year, the Little Hoover Commission, which serves as the state’s independent oversight agency, released a report recommending that the Legislature pass just such a law.
San Francisco officials have been quietly scrambling since early February to patch a security vulnerability in the city’s outdoor alert system that, if left unaddressed, could have allowed hackers to seize control of the city’s network of 114 emergency sirens. Now, the Department of Technology says the problem has been fixed.
The California Department of Transportation is soliciting comments from the public — and from private industry — on what will be included in the next 20-year plan to improve business and community freight connections across the state.
The state's Child Welfare Digital Services continues its training and refinement processes, with the most recent being a multi-team sprint review held last week and the posting of a podcast with an implementation manager for the project.
The rise in value of cryptocurrency appears to be tempting public employees in technology departments across the country to violate the public trust. The California Department of Technology acted quickly when it found such a breach in 2016.
Employees of the state of California can train and network at a Public Sector User Group meeting on Wednesday.
The Brown administration’s efforts to beef up state IT security got an endorsement Thursday from a Senate budget panel, which approved $4.7 million for the California Department of Technology, but lawmakers scrutinized another request to help counties replace vulnerable aging voter equipment.
A new Silicon Valley startup called UrbanLeap is putting together a cloud-based platform for government — especially local government — to pilot-test products and services. It may be the first such product on the market.
California lawmakers are taking steps to define blockchain technology in state law, a key step that advocates say will foster innovation and provide legal certainty to businesses that embrace this emerging technology of tracking digitized transactions.
TJPA has awarded a cybersecurity contract for three years. TJPA is a group of transportation entities, including Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, Caltrans and the California High Speed Rail Authority, that are overseeing the creation of a transit center in San Francisco that would centralize public commutes all the way to Los Angeles.
San Leandro's chief innovation officer, Deborah Acosta, is leaving local government this month to lead a for-profit women’s entrepreneurship incubator aimed at closing the gender gap in Silicon Valley.
The state has issued a Pre-Solicitation Request for Proposal for System Development, Maintenance and Operations services for a state health insurance program.
Three companies' products are being tested on Bay Area carpool lanes as authorities seek to use technology to crack down on lane cheaters.
Los Angeles County's new CIO, fresh from Seattle and on the job for just a few months, is planning to update the IT strategic plan and confer with county departments about their business goals.
CDT will offer software through vendor-hosted subscriptions, starting with the learning management system.
California began accepting applications Monday for permits to deploy self-driving cars on public roads without a human backup driver at the wheel.
SB 375 requires data gathering and interpretation to improve decision-making for transportation and urban planning.
The “product owner” of the state Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) project known as CALS was interviewed in a podcast recently to explain the project and detail how it’s designed to improve children’s welfare in California.
The airport will soon install a form of “dynamic glazing” that takes into account numerous factors like sunlight, temperature, time and other analytics to determine the perfect level of tint to transition thousands of square feet of windows looking out onto the tarmac.
CalEPA Agency Information Officer Sergio Gutierrez talks about collaboration with state government departments and about what IT procurements may be on the horizon.
Editor’s note: Following is one in an ongoing series of profiles of the largest California state government agencies.
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