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The Homelessness Prevention Unit in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, is seeing signs of success in reducing the homelessness in the county. Launched in 2021, the program uses a predictive model, developed by the California Policy Lab, to proactively reach people at the highest risk of becoming homeless and connect them to stabilizing services before they lose their housing. Dana Vanderford, associate director of the HPU, tells the Priorities Podcast that the program uses 580 data points from various agencies to identify individuals at risk of losing housing within the next 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Department of Homeland Security last week published<\/a> the notice of funding opportunity for the fourth and final year of the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. Among the details explaining the latest round of funding for the $1 billion program is a stipulation that grantees may not spend their funds on services provided by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a group that for more than 20 years has shared critical cybersecurity intelligence across state lines and provided software and other resources at free or heavily discounted rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As states conduct an additional round of bidding mandated by last month\u2019s<\/a> changes to the federal Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, initial data shows that SpaceX\u2019s Starlink and other low Earth orbit satellite internet service providers are bidding big for the funds on projects \u2014 and they could win millions over fiber providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a bill into law banning<\/a> the use of artificial intelligence from providing mental health services, aiming to protect residents from potentially harmful advice. Known as the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act, the law prohibits AI systems from delivering therapeutic treatment or making clinical decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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