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US agencies buy vast quantities of personal information on the open market
June 29, 2023 | News, Data & AnalyticsThe government faces legal restrictions on how much personal information it can gather on citizens, but the law is largely silent on agencies purchasing the data from commercial brokers.
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What happened to the Idaho Health Data Exchange, and can other states learn from it?
| News, Data & AnalyticsThe exchange ran into financial troubles after its leadership made funding deals that fell through, leading to bitter feud over a contract.
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Outdated flood data could drown out actual infrastructure needs
June 27, 2023 | News, Data & AnalyticsHistorical data fails to capture current flooding conditions, which could steer communities in the wrong direction when trying to plan and recover from weather events.
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The government has a controversial idea to track mental health crisis calls
June 26, 2023 | News, Data & AnalyticsThe national 988 hotline may start pinpointing callers, a move opponents say could lead to forced intervention and violate caller trust.
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Another state signals its intent to leave the voter data system
June 23, 2023 | News, Data & AnalyticsNow that nearly a quarter of the Electronic Registration Information Center's members have left or are planning to leave the group, Kentucky's secretary of state says the state could be paying more for less information.
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Dangerous driving, poorly designed roadways accelerate pedestrian traffic deaths
June 22, 2023 | News, Data & AnalyticsDespite just over half of states seeing a decrease in pedestrian traffic deaths in 2022, the number of fatalities nationwide continues to creep up, a new report finds.
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When homes flood, who retreats and to where?
June 21, 2023 | Data & Analytics, NewsCOMMENTARY | Two disaster response experts mapped thousands of FEMA buyouts and found distance and race play a role.
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How one state tracks down cartographic ‘phantoms’
June 16, 2023 | News, Data & AnalyticsTo improve the accuracy of its maps, the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office is using data to weed out small rural communities that no longer exist.
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Opioid settlement payouts to localities made public for first time
| News, Data & AnalyticsKFF Health News obtained documents showing the exact dollar amounts — down to the cent — that local governments have been allocated in 2022 and 2023 to battle the ongoing opioid crisis.
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Virginia transit agencies get access to planning software
June 15, 2023 | News, Data & AnalyticsThe Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation now provides all transit agencies across the commonwealth access to Via’s Remix transportation mapping and scheduling software.