The Orlando Police Department plans to launch an open data portal in March that will detail the race, sex and age of sexual offenders as well as where and when sexual offenses have taken place in the city.
The website will feature location-specific maps, graphs, and detailed spreadsheets.
The police department is the only agency in Florida and just one of thirty agencies in the country planning to release such data as part of a White House Program called the Police Data Initiative.
White House spokesman Caroline Bettinger-Lopez said agencies across the country are trying to learn the extent of sex crimes. “If you don’t know a situation, you can’t necessarily come up with tailored responses. This data is going to fill that gap here and serve as a template for other police departments.” Continue…
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