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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 call-routing problems, which have plagued the 988 system since it began operating in July 2022, would be fixed if a bill by U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, which would use a new technology called geo-routing, is passed by Congress and signed into law.
Dustin Hall of Sacramento is the new senior director of enterprise sales for the company’s GovEd sector in California. He succeeds industry veteran Ron Speno, who retired last month.
The California Department of Parks and Recreation is recruiting for a chief information officer who will also serve as IT director, and the California Department of Technology is seeking a project director.
CISO Michael Makstman explains what it takes to secure San Francisco, how the city is approaching generative AI and the importance of sharing information in the Coalition of City CISOs.
As public-sector technologists contemplate how best to use generative artificial intelligence and confront an estimated $68 billion state deficit, lawmakers have released several bills that would create infrastructure, plans and standards for the use of AI.
The Department of Health Care Access and Information spent significantly less in 2023 than the $6.6 million spent on IT services during the previous year.
Three state departments are collaborating on the release of two opportunities for vendors, which seek ideas in applying generative artificial intelligence to solve challenges in the transportation network.
The California Department of Child Support Services is recruiting for an insider threat security engineer, and the Department of General Services is seeking a senior network administrator.
The California State Lottery is seeking a senior security engineer, a senior vendor gaming analyst and a senior project manager.
The annual list is compiled and published by Government Technology as a compendium of 100 companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies across the United States.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture wants to hear from IT companies to better inform any future procurement.
As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to inform readers about state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
Dodd’s bill comes as California lawmakers returned to work in Sacramento for the start of an election-year session dominated not only by AI uses and concerns but also by the state’s significant well of budgetary red ink, an estimated $68 billion.
Transportation officials in the San Francisco Bay Area are working on a plan to use Glydcars — small, electric and autonomous vehicles — to make last-mile connections to more traditional forms of transit.
During the last quarter of 2023, the California Highway Patrol’s five largest purchases of IT goods totaled $22,435,700.
The city of San Diego and the Santa Clara Valley Water District are among the local entities in the early stages of technology projects.
Renesas Electronics, Western Digital, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Talis Biomedical disclosed decisions to conduct employment reductions affecting their workers in the Bay Area.
The chief technology officer will have responsibilities relating to enterprise architecture, IT planning and budgeting, business process improvement, enterprise IT strategy and projects.
The exact timing isn’t set, but the California Department of General Services expects to release five Request for Innovative Ideas (RFI2) opportunities this month that would focus on needs at three state entities.
Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan said she sees part of her role as the new chair of the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee as assessing existing laws — such as those banning child pornography, protecting intellectual property and prohibiting discrimination — and ensuring that they will apply to artificial intelligence.
Chock-a-block with procurements, IT executives joining and leaving state and local government, and everyone greatly abuzz about artificial intelligence, 2023 was a year to remember in California gov tech. These were its most significant issues.
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