Databases
The Trump Administration Is Hiding How It Decides Asylum Cases, Advocates Say
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says everything is available online. How did such a major misunderstanding happen?
A New Database Seeks to Catalog—and Hold Accountable—Police Officers Across the U.S.
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.
Cracks Have Already Begun Appearing in Trump's Plan Smoke Out Voter Fraud
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.
Vastly Underreporting Police Homicides
But a CDC database that began in 2003 may help solve that problem.
Hard Data to Back Up the Rhetoric on Recidivism
New York City has launched a public database to help study the problem of repeat offenders.
In ‘Open Government Data,’ What’s Really Open?
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.
Protein Data Bank Deposits Are Life’s Building Blocks
A four-decade project to catalog the basic structures used to build life pays dividends for everything from new drugs to Bjork’s performances.
Bill Would Create Central Database on the Missing
Legislation named for a missing 31-year-old man would tie together the various data threads on the nation's missing persons.
