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- The Department of Cannabis Control is asking the Legislature for money to support IT enhancements and comply with recently signed legislation.
- Assembly Bill 8 created new oversight and enforcement mandates for the department that will require funding and resources.
- The department has also issued an RFP for a new Laboratory Information Management System Replacement project, with bids due in March.
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The speakers will offer up their forecasts on future initiatives impacting IT across the state, providing “insights to help turbocharge business strategies and validate sales and marketing activities,” according to the event announcement.
A ballot measure that would have let voters decide the fate of a massive land development project in Solano County has been called off.
The department’s budget, which grew 12 percent this year, includes funding for a variety of projects including network and high-speed Internet deployment and site-specific IT refreshes.
The total was significantly less than the $68.9 million that the California Department of Transportation spent on its 10 largest buys in Fiscal Year 2022-23.
Supporters say the ban would be the first of its kind targeting software that has allegedly played an outsized role in increasing the cost of housing — not just in notoriously expensive San Francisco, but in markets across the country.
“Creating policy and/or law before you first understand the technology will only lead to counterproductive bureaucracy suppressing technological evolution and the associated value proposition of AI,” says Jeramy Gray, Los Angeles County’s chief deputy registrar-recorder/county clerk, chief of staff and chief operating officer.
One position is with the California Horse Racing Board, and the other is with the Department of Health Care Services.
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The Employment Development Department’s modernization effort is on the cusp of releasing a massive solicitation to replace its aging claims management system.
The GenAI training was designed for three groups of state employees: general workforce, business leaders, and technical and cybersecurity experts.
The city’s Information Technology Department is looking for 65 HP Elite computers in a recently posted request for bids.
The open positions are in the Employment Development Department, the Department of State Hospitals and the Department of General Services.
The South Pasadena Police Department has adopted 20 Tesla vehicles in a push to take its entire fleet of patrol and administrative vehicles electric.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles is accepting applications for an upcoming private-sector hackathon to identify new use cases for mobile ID technology. A second event will cater to public-sector participants.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Highway Patrol together made up almost half of the state government’s $156,660,946 total IT goods spending during Fiscal Year 2023-24.
As the feud between Gov. Gavin Newsom and entrepreneur Elon Musk heats up, the governor is saying he'll sign legislation to crack down on AI-generated political content.
The Franchise Tax Board, the state’s tax collection agency, is seeking a vendor to manage “application restart control software maintenance.”
The 30-minute webinar will provide an overview of the $297 billion state budget, highlighting which agencies and projects may offer opportunities for industry to partner with government.
Technology execs are critical of state Sen. Scott Wiener’s Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act.
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