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Cameras trained on city streets and alleys would be accessible by police under the council member's proposal, but others are uncertain about how the allowance would affect their right to privacy.

Mexico’s new administration said it will spend $9.2 billion this year on social programs meant to keep young people from joining criminal organizations in the 251 most violent towns and neighborhoods across the country.

Online attackers successfully penetrated the Department of Energy (DOE) network in the middle of January and obtained copies of personally identifiable information.

With a few days left in the month, Chicago finds itself on the cusp of its deadliest January in more than a decade.

The LAPD has deployed 16 wireless cameras in the west San Fernando Valley to help identify criminals.

Barack Obama signed legislation that gives him and former President George W. Bush lifetime Secret Service Protection.

The existence of multiple, overlapping and inconsistent definitions of the term “homeland security” reflects and reinforces confusion in the homeland security mission, according to a report.

Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) will succeed Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) as the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

In 2013 visitors from 30 countries will be required to submit a photograph and fingerprints if they want to travel to Canada.