Pacific Standard spoke with Camille Fassett, a researcher with Lucy Parsons Labs, about the OpenOversight program—a public database indexing law enforcement officers by name, photo, incidents, and more.
The White House commission on voter fraud plans to run states' voter rolls against federal databases to find potential fraudulent registrations — a move experts say will result in thousands of errors and could distort fraud.
But a CDC database that began in 2003 may help solve that problem.
New York City has launched a public database to help study the problem of repeat offenders.
In parsing the meaning of “open government,” citizens weigh the availability of information against the transparency of creating it. It’s a rare grammar debate that affects the course of democracy.
A four-decade project to catalog the basic structures used to build life pays dividends for everything from new drugs to Bjork’s performances.
Legislation named for a missing 31-year-old man would tie together the various data threads on the nation's missing persons.
