by Eric Jackson | Mar 22, 2019 | Civic Tech, featured project, FOIA Requests, open data
Sunshine Request celebrated its second birthday this March by receiving the 2019 Sunshine Award for Advocacy given by the North Carolina Open Government Coalition. The website, a project of PRC Apps by Code for Asheville members Patrick Conant, Jesse Michel, Lauren...
by Eric Jackson | Mar 8, 2019 | Civic Tech, criminal justice, events, featured project, open data, police data
More than 25 people, including a few new faces and several members of BeLoved’s Homeless Voice, joined us on Saturday for Open Data Day 2019. This year’s event focused on ways to use the policing open data that began to be released last year. Jesse Michel...
by Eric Jackson | Feb 21, 2019 | Civic Tech, featured project, open data
Code for Asheville’s February community night, on Valentine’s Day, was dedicated to love of open data—specifically, to our plan to push for an open data policy for Buncombe County government. In 2015, Code for Asheville members and supporters led the...
by Jim March | Jan 17, 2019 | Civic Tech, community nights, criminal justice, events, hackathon, leadership, National Day of Civic Hacking, Newsletter, open data, People, police data, policy, reentry, State of Black Asheville
Highlights by Month JANUARY: We supported the Transportation for Seniors Hackathon.FEBRUARY: We learned about ourselves by working on our website. It was a fun and engaging meeting, our best for the year, during which everyone participated. Through our discussion, we...
