An elite team of Hoosier first responders returned home Monday following deployment to flood-devastated Kerr County, Texas.

Virginia Task Force 4 returned to Bristol after more than a dozen harrowing days in Texas. Task Force 4 was deployed through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact

Indiana Task Force 1 is back home. They sent 83 members to Texas to help after devastating floods in the state earlier this month. The task force searched for people around Kerrville in the Texas Hill Country. They returned Monday in multiple vehicles loaded with team members and equipment.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) called on a group of northern Virginia search and rescue members for help in Texas.

Tulare County has assembled a task force to create an AI policy for its employees. Although artificial intelligence is able to cost-effectively increase productivity among county workers, its use raises ethical issues.

Wisconsin Rep. Sheila Stubbs is pushing forward with a bill for a task force focused on missing and murdered Black women in the state.

While most people dread any type of audit, Manatee County Commission Chair George Kruse welcomes the county’s upcoming audit by the Florida DOGE Task Force. Kruse called the audit an opportunity to look for efficiencies and savings.