Editor In Chief

Colin Wood

StateScoop & EdScoop

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

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Newsom's Trump and crime webpage — (Scoop News Group)

California governor’s new data dashboard tracks declining crime rates, needles Trump

Data & Analytics

North Carolina sign — (Getty Images)

North Carolina names senior adviser for digital experience

Digital Services

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AI tops cybersecurity in survey of state IT priorities

AI

EBT sign — An EBT sign is displayed on the window of a grocery store on Oct. 30, 2025 in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

Center for Civic Futures announces 8 projects to improve AI for public benefits access

AI

COMAR — (Scoop News Group)

Maryland becomes first state to adopt Open Law Library for its legal code

State

Phillips 66 oil refinery — Phillips 66 oil refinery operates in Linden, New Jersey, on March 8, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

New Jersey opens recruitment for volunteer cyber corps

Cybersecurity

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem — Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 2, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

DHS lookup tool may expose sensitive data of hundreds of millions of Americans, secretaries of state warn

Cybersecurity

state capitol building — (Getty Images)

Congress — again — considers preempting state AI laws, this time bundling with child online safety bills

AI

Donald Trump embraces Kris Kobach — Preisdent Donald Trump embraces Kris Kobach, then Kansas’s secretary of state and Republican candidate for Kansas governor, during a MAGA rally at Landon Arena in Topeka, Kansas, Oct. 6, 2018. (Mark Reinstein / Corbis via Getty Images)

Kansas AG website briefly hosted ad for ‘AI-generated adult images’

Cybersecurity