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Colin Wood

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Colin Wood is StateScoop’s editor in chief. Contact him at colin.wood@statescoop.com or cwood.64 on Signal.

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State governments are starting to pursue agentic AI

AI

LIPA power plant — The Long Island Power Authority power plant sits in Northport, New York, on Nov. 7, 2025. (John Paraskevas / Newsday RM via Getty Images)

‘You can’t separate the physical from the cyber,’ says New York’s first security and intelligence director

Cybersecurity

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Washington state agency removes AI with Spanish-accented English from phone system

AI

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Nebraska’s new cyber chief says CISOs should stop saying no

Cybersecurity

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North Carolina selects vendor for stopgap upgrade to elections system

State

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Maryland unveils statewide zero-trust cybersecurity policy

Cybersecurity

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Prominent access broker pleads guilty to ‘obtaining information’ from Oregon state government computer

Cybersecurity

Kristi Noem — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem takes the podium during a press conference in Nogales, Arizona, on Feb. 4, 2026. (Olivier Touron / AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy nonprofit launches project to aid elections officials on cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Ken Paxton — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attends a signing ceremony for an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Education Department, at the East Room of the White House on March 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Texas attorney general sues TP-Link for exposing users to cyber risk, deceptive business practices

Cybersecurity