Liz Crowe, director of Quality Control at the city's Department of Urban Analytics & Innovation, debuted the city's new Open Data Portal on Tuesday, at the Department of Public Health.
Crowe joined Mayor Justin Bibb on Tuesday to unveil City Hall's fix for the typhoon of requests burdening its records department:, a massive digitized collection of, as Crowe said,"overtime, trend-type, map-type" data and information that, in the past, required a necessary ask to a public records official.), is also, both Crowe and Bibb added, a method of allowing skeptics and truth-seekiers ready access to info that previously was behind a curtain.
Bibb, who was quick to remind his audience that he was once a Smart Cities expert in Washington, D.C., sold City Hall's portal as evidence that Cleveland is making steps in its search for its own modernization. Assistant Law Director Amy Hough told Scene public safety data is one of the most requested areas of information. But it all adds up to volume.