Changing Government: SpotCrime's Fight for Equal and Fair Access to Crime Data is Changing How Government Operates
Police transparency and openness is colliding full force with technology and trust. We continue to run into issues collecting crime data from agencies nationwide , however, our push for open, equal, and fair access to public crime information is making headway. Policy language Open data policies are now including language that covers how vendors deal with public data. Check out the language in the draft open data policy for Jersey City : All data or data sets published pursuant to Section III shall be published in a non-proprietary, searchable, sortable, platform-independent, machine-readable format. All data or data sets shall include available metadata. To the greatest extent practicable, the City shall assign unique identifiers to all data and data sets. The City shall not place any restrictions on third-party reuse of data or data sets. The City shall not provide to third parties any copies, records or logs of the identities or IP address...