| MOST POPULAR Not In My Backyard How can cities keep up with requirements to visually inspect properties within their borders with reduced staffing and stretched budgets? In Taunton, Mass., technology is helping speed up a traditionally manual process, alerting officials to property additions that may have been completed without permits. Aerial imagery that leverages AI, in addition to being a contactless way of getting the job done, can also help generate extra revenue when property tax bills are issued. A Texas-Sized Ask for Cyber, Modernization As a part of a biannual process, the Texas Department of Information Resources has made a considerable ask of its legislature: $900 million. Officials say the request, if granted, would pay for 59 projects. With several large modernization efforts included, the figure dwarfs the 2018 request of $486 million. Louisville’s Journey to Remote Productivity Laptops, e-signatures, virtual meeting tools … Louisville, Ky., is now using several tech tools to power the business of government, and some of them are likely to outlast the pandemic. GT’s Jed Pressgrove caught up with officials to get the details on their lasting digital transformation. Tech Leadership News After serving in an interim capacity for two years, Vitaliy Panych is now officially the chief information security officer for the state of California. Panych began his career with the state almost two decades ago as a network engineer at the Teale Data Center. And as we told you last week, former Interim New York CIO Jeremy Goldberg announced that he’ll join former state CIOs James Collins and Yessica Jones in public-sector roles at Microsoft. | 