Officials have delayed the installation of a third ShotSpotter system in San Francisco because the communications system on which it relies has yet to be restored.
Terry Childs, a network administrator, was charged in July with changing the passwords to the network and locking out city agencies.
ShotSpotter, a system that pinpoints the location of gunfire, was scheduled for installation in the Mission district this summer,, according to Lt. Mikail Ali with the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. The City’s internal fiber-optic network was supposed to be the backbone of the installation.
More than two square miles of The City – in Bayview-Hunters Point and the Western Addition – are already equipped with the technology
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they could always drag his butt out of jail and put him back on the job…hehe
“It’s been business as usual. We have been operating just like we would on any given day with no down time,” says Vinson. — July 15, 2008
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6265294
“We were able to regain complete control of the network Tuesday,” said Ron Vinson, the deputy director of the city’s Department of Technology Information Services. — July 22, 2008
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/san-francisco-a.html
“Nothing dramatic has changed in terms of our ability to govern the city.” — SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, July 23rd, 2008
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/technology&id=6283348