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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] Mapping of Offenders |
| Date: |
03/16/2005 04:05:01 PM |
| From: |
Filbert, Katie |
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Anthony,
I would point you to the list of online crime mapping websites,
maintained by the MAPS (Mapping & Analysis for Public Safety) program at
the National Institute of Justice.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/related.html to find some
jurisdictions that have experience with developing online GIS
applications, that depict location of registered sex offenders.
Particularly, take a look at the websites of the local jurisdictions in
California. Many make the locations of sex offenders publicly available
through interactive web-mapping applications. But, so does Tulsa,
Oklahoma, Snohomish County, Washington, and I'm sure others out there.
Also, take a look at the MAPS publications, particularly "Crime Mapping
and Data Confidentiality", which is free to download in PDF format.
You might find more information about privacy/confidentiality issues
with GIS data, in the public health literature as they face the same
issues as law enforcement does with protecting the privacy of offenders,
crime victims, and sexual offenders, while balancing that with the
public right to know.
Best regards, Katie
Katie Filbert
Research Associate / GIS Analyst (contractor)
National Institute of Justice, MAPS Program
Katie.Filbert@usdoj.gov
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:36 PM
To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
Subject: [gislist] Mapping of Offenders
Importance: Low
List,
Has anyone had experience with developing a website or portal for public
consumption/awareness that maps the locations of known and registered
sexual offenders [or for that matter any other category of criminal
activity that is in the digital public domain] ? In Florida at least,
and I suspect the same may be the case in many other States, we have a
state-level law enforcement agency that is mandated to record and
register the "last known address" of individuals convicted of various
sexual offenses. This website is, as you might imagine, non-spatial in
its presentation, but contains the necessary spatial content to
automatically and with regular frequency [because some of those
individuals go back to jail and some new ones get out, almost on a daily
basis], geocode and display on a map the locations of those "last known
addresses", and perhaps, present the "attributes" of the individuals.
I'm more interested in the issues of policy, privacy and of course,
legal considerations of such existing "location-based services" for this
specific application. The technical is rather "mundane" and relatively
straight-forward, however, the fact that the agency in charge of putting
this information falls short of implementing tools that would map the
individuals' locations indicates to me that perhaps some attorney
somewhere was reluctant to provide the information in a geographic
context. Quite understandable, given the potential powder-keg it could
represent, but is it such and explosive issue or not? Looking for
experiences in this or similarly, "edgy" public-domain issues.
Thanks, Anthony
Ps. Knock knock. Who's there ? Aren'tya. Aren'tya who ? Aren'tya glad
I didn't say OGC.....
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