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2 days ago | insider.govtech.com | Eyragon Eidam

Los Angeles County has the largest probation department in the U.S., which means managing the IT needs of not only a large population of individuals at various points within the criminal justice system but also those tasked with guiding them through it. As with just about every job in 2025, technology plays an enormous part in that process — from intake and booking to recommendations to the court to tracking individual progress and compliance with court orders.

3 days ago | insider.govtech.com | Eyragon Eidam

State leaders on Tuesday reached an agreement on the budget bill passed earlier this month, ironing out a tentative $321.1 billion spending package. Lawmakers pushed back on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May Revision, which sought to reduce a $12 billion deficit through programmatic and spending reductions. The new tentative agreement pushes pause on some of the governor’s belt-tightening, relying instead on shifted funds and increased borrowing to circumvent or delay more painful reductions.

4 days ago | insider.govtech.com | Eyragon Eidam

HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. — Technology officials from three departments within Los Angeles County government have offered an inside look at their IT strategies for the coming years. The hourslong discussion was part of an Industry Insider — California member briefing Tuesday morning in Southern California with IT leaders from the departments of Public Social Services (DPSS), Internal Services (ISD) and Probation.

1 week ago | insider.govtech.com | Eyragon Eidam

The application stack monitoring firm New Relic has a new strategic account executive in Jim Jennings. If that name sounds familiar, it’s likely because Jennings has spent more than two decades in the IT industry working with companies such as Allied Network Solutions, Citrix, and most recently, Datadog, where he served as the Northern California SLED enterprise account executive. New Relic was founded in 2008 and has since grown to include offices in 17 cities around the world.

1 week ago | govtech.com | Eyragon Eidam

For industry, The California Report on Frontier AI Policy offers a glimpse at where state leaders and lawmakers could soon be putting more regulatory energy, assuming they won’t be hobbled by the federal government. The release of the report comes at a time when federal lawmakers are considering the passage of President Donald Trump’s spending package — dubbed the “big, beautiful bill” by the president and its backers — which includes a moratorium on state-level AI regulations.