September 2023 – CU-CitizenAccess.org

Looking south to the Champaign Police Department Building on First Street. Photo by Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess

Champaign and Urbana shootings fall since 2021 peak; cities pondering what preventive programs worked

Post author:Andrew Prozorovsky / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:September 25, 2023
Post category:Government Neighborhoods

In the past eight years, Champaign and Urbana witnessed a steep hike in gun violence and then a swift decline after 2021 — but…

Read more about the article Champaign gunshot detection tech not meeting expectations

Champaign City Council

The city council voted 6-3 on a resolution "Authorizing the Purchase and Installation of Automated License Plate Readers, Gunshot Detection, and Related Equipment from Flock Group, Inc.," in December 2021.

Champaign gunshot detection tech not meeting expectations

Post author:Andrew Prozorovsky / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:September 13, 2023
Post category:Government Neighborhoods Technology

On February 13 this year, a one-year pilot program began in Champaign with Raven gunshot detection technology. Records obtained in a Freedom of Information…