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From WRGB CBS 6 News / By Tom Eschen / October 15, 2023 The Schenectady Police Department staffing shortage is getting worse -- they're projecting to have 15 vacant officers' positions in 2024, almost 10 more than last year. As we reported Thursday, they've now requested $3.6 million in overtime to compensate, but they're also hoping technology can help make the city safer. It’s called "Patrolfinder" the city working with a local company Transfinder to collect data for [...]

Northeastern Chiefs of Police Hear Update on Policing Software

Steve Gardner oversees the transportation of more than 26,000 Connecticut students who attend school in more than 30 different school districts. But to speak with him, Gardner, the former director of technology and now the general manager at All-Star Transportation, doesn’t appear stressed in the least. Even when his firm, which prior to the pandemic had just under 1,000 drivers, had been down as many as 170 drivers at one point, Gardner said the routes get covered and students get the [...]

Karen Torres instituted a new motto this year at Whittier Union High School District (CA): “We want to serve well.”Torres is the transportation director at Whittier Union, a district located in Los Angeles County, California, just 10 miles from the heart of the city. She oversees the transportation of 1,300 students, with about 75 percent of those students having special needs.Serving well is imperative. And it goes beyond transportation.“We don’t want to just transport [...]

From National School Transportation Association: NSTA / January 24, 2023Don't miss the latest NSTA: The Bus Stop. This week at NSTA: The Bus Stop - a special live episode of the podcast from the 2023 NSTA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, California. Executive Director Curt Macysyn is joined Tony Civitella, President and CEO of Transfinder. Tony recaps his experience at the 2023 NSTA Midwinter Meeting and his role in the "Putting a Stop (arm) to Illegal Passing" Panel. The duo outline importance [...]