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 Alyx Perry | Nov 22, 2019 | Civic Tech, criminal justice, police data
How does the community give useful feedback to the police department when there are segments of the community who feel their voice is not heard, or worse, they fear retribution? This is a question many communities must face, especially those with a history of police...
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 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 Eric Jackson | Jul 7, 2018 | criminal justice, Newsletter, reentry
Christiana Glenn Tugman and Eric Jackson appeared on A Better World on WPVM FM to talk about the criminal justice system, reentry, and the Buncombe County Reentry Resources Hub. You can listen to the conversation here. The long-delayed statewide NC Reentry Resources...
