Municipal Equation Podcast

A look at how NCLM members work together to advance all in setting municipal priorities for the state legislature's 2027 session. This episode features Ahoskie Councilman David Hunt and Dallas Mayor Hayley Beaty, who together co-chair NCLM's Legislative Policy Committee.

With federal requirements (and deadlines ahead) regarding the Americans With Disabilities Act and local government websites, we bring you another important session with Kevin Benson from VC3, this time showing us ways to test our municipal websites for accessibility issues. You should also mark your calendar for the next webinar on the topic, set for Sept. 3, 2026. And check out NCLM's page on ADA accessibility for all the background you need.

Local police department evidence rooms are vital, sensitive places, and a lot rides on managing them well. On this episode, we talk with Hope Martin, evidence manager for the Madison Police Department and board member with the International Association for Property and Evidence, who takes us inside the typical evidence room and runs down the best practices and mentalities for smart, secure management. More about Hope Martin and IAPE: https://welcome.iape.org/2024/02/14/hope-martin/

How do we keep our online systems, and by extension our communities, safe as cyber threats constantly advance and evolve? Yes, we can have all the best security software and so on. But it's also about human behavior, planning and response. On this episode, we talk with NCLM's director of information technology, Sunil Rajan, about the kinds of cyber threats that local governments, vendors and organizations face today, how these threats have evolved, and how to stay ahead of them.