Vivian La
To mitigate infection, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had to utilize several novel technologies, yet lack of staff availability to enforce this technology…
Darrell Hoemann
Champaign County eliminated the ability for a person to search property tax records by an owner’s first and last name in 2018's new tax system, despite almost every other county in Illinois still allowing it and seeing improved service quality as a result. However, the property records, including names, can be obtained through a Freedom of Information Act and put into a searchable database. In other words, not allowing one to search by name in the software simply makes finding a property owner’s name more difficult, rather than preventing it altogether.
Darrell Hoemann
Access to Urbana police arrest data is now easier thanks to a new city website. Earlier this month, the City of Urbana launched an open data portal that allows the public to download data on the city’s finances, police arrests and incidents and even nuisance complaints.
CU-CitizenAccess.org
As part of an ongoing project called Intersections, we are working on digital tools that help the community see the events and issues first publicized, and sometimes only publicized, through social media. We hope this can increase community engagement and conversations on those events and issues.
Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess
Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Now all residents in Champaign-Urbana can access big broadband, thanks to a new agreement with a private company. It was standing…
By Robert Holly/CU-CitizenAccess -- Though the City of Urbana’s website has been down for nearly two weeks, city officials said they still don’t know…
Last month, our co-founder Brant Houston wrote about the impact of data on our community and how data launched CU-CitizenAccess. Below is an excerpt…
By Imani Carr/For CU-CitizenAccess.org CU-CitizenAccess worked with faculty from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science to secure a grant from the state…
By Jim Meadows/Illinois Public Media -- People who live in a city may take broadband Internet service for granted. But in many rural areas,…
