The City of Orlando Previews Open Data Website with Representatives from the White House

On January 27, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Police Chief John Mina will host a Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault data workshop to better understand how law enforcement data can be used to reduce domestic violence and sexual assault. Representatives from the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women are scheduled to attend and observe the event.

The event is part of the White House’s Police Data Initiative and the City’s Open Data Website initiative and will bring together the tech community and domestic violence and sexual assault advocates to dive into preliminary data sets that the City plans to make available on the public data portal and to provide input and feedback as to what data is useful.

By bringing together these subject matter experts from government, law enforcement, and the technology community, the event aims to stimulate conversations and ideas as to how this increased access to data can help to enhance and introduce new programs and community collaborations to ensure the safety and protection of domestic violence and sexual assault victims and further prevent these tragedies from happening in the first place.

The City will use the feedback from this meeting to finalize the data sets that will be publicly released as part of the official launch of the City’s Open Data Website in March 2016.

The Orlando Police Department is the first agency in the country to release this type of data and is the only agency in Florida participating in the Police Data Initiative which grew out of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.

Orlando’s new Open Data Website, data.CityofOrlando.net, is part of the City’s continued efforts to ensure an open and transparent government that provides increased access to municipal resources, furthering economic development and creating opportunities for collaboration.

The website, launching in March 2016, will include data on OPD cases and calls for service, building permits and business tax receipts issued and commissioner, neighborhood and solid waste route maps.

In anticipation of this release the City of Orlando is hosting a series of demonstration events with various constituent groups to give citizens an opportunity to interact with the data and provide feedback on the website itself, the specific data presented and suggest future potential data sets.

With the tools embedded on the new site, residents, business owners and City staff will be able easily access and run simple analysis and visualizations of select data sets. It will also allow web developers an ability to build their own applications using that data.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer

Orlando Police Chief John Mina

Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women

Rosie Hidalgo, Deputy Director for Policy,  Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice

Denice Ross, Senior Advisor, Community Solutions at The White House Office of Management and Budget ‎

Members from the Tech Community

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Advocates

Iron Yard

Church Street Exchange Building

101 South Garland Avenue

Media parking will be on the north side of Pine Street under I-4 between Garland Avenue and Hughey Avenue.  Please enter the closure onto Pine Street from Garland and park on the north side facing toward Hughey Avenue.

Please note that attendees will be asked to sign an agreement at the event to not disclosure or reuse the data being shared at the event due to the sensitive nature of the data. While standard practices are being used to anonymize data, media are asked to not air or publish any information that might in any way disclose the identity or location of domestic violence or sexual assault victims.

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