Ferguson's tiny IT operation in the maelstrom

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9250388/Ferguson_s_tiny_IT_operation_in_the_maelstrom

By Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld
August 14, 2014

Ferguson, Mo., the city in the midst of protests over a fatal police 
shooting, runs the type of IT department that gets almost no attention.

Ferguson doesn't have a CIO or the type of big IT vision found in larger 
communities, at least judging from the documents it makes available 
online.

It operates with two IT employees, a network administrator and an IT 
specialist, and uses an outside contractor for some services, according to 
budget documents. It's a city of only 21,000.

The fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9 has had 
enormous impact nationally, drawing attention from President Barack Obama 
on Thursday. It has also made this city a target of the hacker group 
Anonymous.

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