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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] Mapping of Offenders |
| Date: |
03/17/2005 08:20:01 AM |
| From: |
epoulsen .. eden.rutgers.edu |
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I just want to add to Katie's information that there is a listserve
for crime mapping on that site as well:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/listserv.html
I belong to it, and they do discuss questions such as yours on there.
> 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/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:36 PM
> To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
> Subject: [gislist] Mapping of Offenders
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> 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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