Social Security Administration explains ammunition purchase

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  federal_agencies_legislative The Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of Inspector General’s new Web blog on Aug. 16 sought to defuse news reports about its plans to purchase substantial amounts of handgun ammunition. Homepage position:  10 read more View full post on Government Security News View full…

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Secret Service wants to purchase 200 GPS tracking units

Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector:  law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption:  Sendum’s PT300GPS tracker The U.S. Secret Service plans to purchase 200 units of the PT300 GPS tracker from Sendum Wireless Corp., of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, or an equivalent GPS product, to use in tracking the precise location of packages or other…

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Neb. AG defends purchase of lethal injection drug

By Grant Schulte Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning produced documents Monday that he said contradicted claims that state officials had been conned into buying stolen doses of an execution drug. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services announced in November that it had obtained sodium thiopental,…

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