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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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Mississippi capitol building — (Getty Images)

Mississippi names new chief technology officer

State

Minot, North Dakota — (City of Minot)

Water treatment plant in North Dakota suffered ransomware attack

Cybersecurity

Nevada capitol building — Nevada’s state capitol building sits in Carson City. (Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Nevada names retired Army officer as cybersecurity chief

Cybersecurity

Craig Orgeron — Mississippi Chief Information Officer Craig Orgeron poses for a photo at the National Association of State CIOs’ midyear conference in Baltimore on April, 23 2018. (Colin Wood / Scoop News Group)

Mississippi lawmakers approve security operations center, centralizing IT services

State

voting location — (Getty Images)

On cyber, local elections officials are ‘natural risk managers,’ says former CISA official

Cybersecurity

chatbot with pink background — (Getty Images)

Idaho lawmakers consider banning pro-DEI chatbots inside state government

AI

Josh Stein — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein talks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court after he attended oral arguments in the Moore v. Harper case Dec. 7, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Amid ‘rising global threats,’ North Carolina’s tech bureau urges cybersecurity vigilance

Cybersecurity

Texas state capitol building — The Texas State Capitol building stands in Austin. (Getty Images)

Texas promotes AI and innovation chief to CIO role

State

Katie Hobbs — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs speaks on a panel discussion about Innovations in Water Access at the Clinton Global Initiative on Sept. 23, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent / Getty Images)

Arizona’s governor unveils (a more careful) efficiency plan: ‘We will not slash and burn’

State