Mojave Research and other technical witnesses told the committee they found weak logging, broken cryptographic hygiene, and vulnerable third‑party components in evaluated systems. They urged source‑code audit access for trusted reviewers, explicit parts lists, append‑only logging and contract clauses preventing gag clauses and remote access.

Committee members asked whether Connecticut can create a privacy-preserving shared compute/data environment (a 'confidential computing cluster') like systems used by California universities; Yale said common EMRs in-state could make a cluster feasible but warned it requires substantial resources and governance.

City officials outlined a plan to meet the U.S. Department of Justice's WCAG 2.1 AA requirement and to migrate city sites to a cloud content platform; staff emphasized human testing, departmental training and a phase-2 gap analysis ahead of the April 26, 2027 compliance deadline.

OnGov, an AI startup supporting government service delivery solutions, hosted the first-ever 1776 Labs in Philadelphia. There, a variety of technologists developed civic tech solutions with AI.

The board certified combined city and school election outcomes from Nov. 4 after elections staff described a phone outage on election day, the improvised Google-number workaround, and the benefits of a new electronic pull-book system that reduced prep time from roughly 40 hours to under 10.

Speakers traced TIGER’s development from an 1980s project to modern TIGERLine files, viewers and geodatabases, emphasizing open data and national mapping infrastructure that support many Census products.

Census geographers gave a detailed tour of public geographic products — TigerLine/TIGER formats, cartographic boundary files, GRF reference files, relationship files — and demonstrated web viewers and the Census Geocoder, with presenters promising follow-ups on data-file availability.

Glenn Rice of the Missouri Census Data Center demonstrated GeoCore (Geocorr), an engine that produces allocation factors and correlation lists to reallocate counts between source geographies (ZIP/ZCTA) and target geographies (congressional districts, CBSAs, school districts). He showed example outputs, CSV/HTML workflows and post‑processing steps.

The council authorized a master services agreement with a vendor to implement a new case-management system for Katy Municipal Courts, approving a roughly $50,000 first-year cost (implementation plus first-year maintenance). Officials discussed data conversion, text-notice fees and police integration before voting to approve the contract.

U.S. Census Bureau presenters Vicky Mack and Jessica Klein walked webinar attendees through the ACS, the Census API, recommended R packages (tidycensus, tigris, tidyverse), and reproducible workflows for fetching ACS estimates, joining shapefiles, and creating static and interactive maps; slides and example code are on GitHub.

The webinar demo showed how to use the landing-page search, the filtered 'explore filters' panel to select places and ZCTAs (example: Laurel, MD, ZCTA 20707), how to open detailed ACS tables (B01001B), and how to download Excel/CSV/zip files including GUIDs for GEOID matching.

Council approved an Article 13 contract with Quadian Incorporated to purchase automated insertion/collation and mailing equipment for internal ballot processing; Registrar Chris Comstock said the machines will fold, collate, seal and post ballots, reducing volunteer labor.

Team addresses delays in Granicus captioning during video tagging of agenda items.

Facilitators explain meeting setups and voting processes for efficient administration.

Census Bureau presenters demonstrated how to download and set up the BAS Partnership Toolbox for ArcGIS Pro, run automated creators, run attribute checks, export submission zip files for SWIM, and use GUPS Web's automated and manual editors to create, review and accept/dismiss changes before submitting to the Census Bureau.

The Census Bureau webinar outlines three BAS submission methods—BAS Partnership Toolbox for ArcGIS Pro, GUPS Web, and paper maps—and demonstrates SWIM as the secure upload portal; the demo shows selecting program 'Boundary and Annexation Survey,' choosing the reporting entity type, attaching the basTBx.zip file and receiving an email confirmation.

The Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois described a 2024 AI initiative supporting 57 grantees with discovery work, peer learning groups, strategic opportunity grants (including AI phone agents and document automation pilots), an online resource hub and plans for an AI learning platform.

Legislation permits electronic transmission of acts by D.C. Council Chairman.

At a Cheyenne Technology Advisory Council fireside chat, panelists described the state-launched Frontier stable token (FRNT) as a potential way to cut payment friction and enable programmable money, while warning of privacy, adoption and regulatory limits.

Communications staff said Spokane County must meet Department of Justice WCAG 2.1 accessibility requirements in April and recommended a one-time purchase of DotAccess (acquired by Civic Plus) to remediate documents; staff reported a negotiated first-year price of about $15,950 and asked for approval to proceed and for IT to manage renewals.

Portland council failed to approve a $45,000 purchase of an Axon-branded police drone after public testimony raised privacy, vendor-lock and civil-liberties concerns; the motion to approve received only three votes and fell short of the five-vote threshold required for passage. The item will return to a future agenda.

Benton Harbor staff proposed moving digital evidence (body‑cam video, photos and audio) from city servers to Axon evidence storage and joining a regional computer‑aided dispatch system; staff said the one‑time move would be a small upfront cost (reported as $226 in the packet) and eliminate about $1,000/month in storage costs, while CAD implementation would rely on county and state grant support to cover roughly $30,000 of city costs.

Staff presented a new HBIM digital twin of the Michigan Capitol that links 3‑D scans, environmental sensors and maintenance records to help detect leaks, track decorative-surface history and guide future portrait placement. Commissioners will consider a portrait-placement policy at the March meeting.