by Jim March | Jan 2, 2020 | Civic Tech, community nights, criminal justice, events, featured project, National Day of Civic Hacking, open data, police data, policy, reentry
Here are some of the projects in the plans for 2020: Open Buncombe – Continue to work with Buncombe County towards adoption of an open data policyGrowing Our Information Commons – Continue to support Buncombe County Libraries with tech-savvy...
by Jim March | Sep 19, 2019 | Civic Tech, criminal justice, events, National Day of Civic Hacking
According to the North Carolina Judicial Branch web site: “An expunction is a legal process to remove a criminal conviction or a criminal charge from a person’s record and to seal or destroy the state’s records of the arrest, charge, and/or conviction.”...
by Jim March | Aug 15, 2019 | Buncombe County, Civic Tech, events, information commons, library
Thanks to Eric Jackson, I’ve started a conversation with Jim Blanton, the new Buncombe County Library Director. We talked about ways in which the tech community, including Code for Asheville, might be able to support the general public with the internet. The...
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 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...
by Alyx Perry | Nov 20, 2018 | events, National Day of Civic Hacking, open data
On Saturday, August 18 we hosted 28 members and guests for National Day of Civic Hacking to explore using data, technology and relationships to understand and improve our community. The day featured two parallel activities: one on mapping relationships in the...
