Fifteen of Fayette County’s 24 public schools were under a face covering mandate as of Thursday, Aug. 19, according to Melinda Berry-Dreisbach, the school system’s public information officer late Thursday […]
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US towns are buying Chinese surveillance tech tied to Uighur abuses
Hikvision and Dahua supplied Beijing with technology it used to surveil ethnic groups
This story was reported in partnership with video surveillance news site IPVM.
At least a hundred U.S. counties, towns and cities have bought China-made surveillance systems that the U.S. government has linked to human rights abuses, according to contract data seen by TechCrunch.
Some municipalities have spent tens of thousands of dollars or more to buy surveillance equipment made by two Chinese technology companies, Hikvision and Dahua, after the companies were added to the U.S. government’s economic blacklist in 2019. The two companies were linked to China’s ongoing efforts to suppress ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, where most Uighur Muslims live. Congress also banned U.S. federal agencies from buying new Hikvision and Dahua technology or renewing contracts over fears that it could help the Chinese government conduct espi
Fayette County Public Schools will give a $1,000 one-time award to all school system employees, both full-time and part-time. Hourly employees who worked at least 190 hours this school year […]
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A Fayette County School System nurse injects an employee with the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at one of 30 stations on the floor of Fayette County High School Gymnasium March 11. Photo/Cal Beverly.
UPDATED MARCH 13 Just three days after the state opened up vaccinations to school staff, over 1,800 Fayette County School System employees approximately 63 percent of the system’s workforce received their first dose of the vaccine.
Since the first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Georgia in mid-December, school system employees have been anxiously awaiting their turn to get vaccinated. Their time finally came on Thursday, March 11 when Fayette County Public Schools, in partnership with Piedmont Fayette Hospital, held the first of two vaccination clinics at Fayette County High School.