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Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment: State health department increases transparency with new, interactive air quality records map

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Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment: State health department increases transparency with new, interactive air quality records map. “The state health department’s Air Pollution Control Division has launched a new, interactive online map to search for air quality records. The map provides access to thousands of digital air quality records for stationary sources of air pollution.”

Rutgers University: New Online Tool Helps Consumers Compare Homeowners Insurance

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Rutgers University: New Online Tool Helps Consumers Compare Homeowners Insurance. “[RU InsureScore] is a unique tool that gives consumers information about coverage that insurance companies don’t, and it compares and rates policies of major national insurers.”

Associated Press: Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

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Associated Press: Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities. “The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home. They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities.”

KZRG: Kansas aviation information available on KDOT website

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KZRG: Kansas aviation information available on KDOT website. “A new website created by the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Division of Aviation, in collaboration with industry experts, provides a close-up look at all 140 public-use airports across the state and their impact on the communities they serve. Online dashboards provide the conditions of airport runways, economic impact data, future airport needs and more.”

Associated Press: Minnesota courts expand camera access to criminal trials

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Associated Press: Minnesota courts expand camera access to criminal trials. “Minnesota courts will allow greater audiovisual coverage of criminal proceedings starting next year under an order filed Wednesday by the Minnesota Supreme Court, but the rules will nonetheless remain more restrictive than those in many other states.”

Health IT Analytics: Researchers Develop Health Equity Data Dashboard for Medicare Plans

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Health IT Analytics: Researchers Develop Health Equity Data Dashboard for Medicare Plans. “Researchers have developed a dashboard that shows how equitably Medicare Advantage plans are serving their enrollees in an effort to advance health equity.”

Columbia Climate School: New Website Tracks Inflation Reduction Act’s Climate Provisions

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Columbia Climate School: New Website Tracks Inflation Reduction Act’s Climate Provisions. “Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund unveiled a new website today to track implementation of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The website will also provide users with valuable information about the programs, protections, incentives, and tax credits offered through this historic legislation.”

Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Insights from Newly Digitized Banking Data, 1867-1904

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Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Insights from Newly Digitized Banking Data, 1867-1904. “Call reports—regulatory filings in which commercial banks report their assets, liabilities, income, and other information—are one of the most-used data sources in banking and finance. Though call reports were collected as far back as 1867, the underlying data are only easily accessible for the recent past: the mid-1980s onward in the case of the FDIC’s FFIEC call reports. To help researchers look farther back in time, we’ve begun creating a complete digital record of this ‘missing’ call report data.”

State of Ohio: Ohio Launches New Data Dashboards to Report Overdose, Substance-Use Measures

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State of Ohio: Ohio Launches New Data Dashboards to Report Overdose, Substance-Use Measures. “Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced that the state has launched new data dashboards to better track and report data on overdose deaths and other substance-use related measures for all 88 Ohio counties.”

State of Connecticut: Governor Lamont Commemorates International Open Data Day 2023

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State of Connecticut: Governor Lamont Commemorates International Open Data Day 2023. “Governor Ned Lamont is marking International Open Data Day, which is celebrated this year on March 5, 2023, by recognizing the transparency and openness of Connecticut’s state government and highlighting recent enhancements that increase data available for the public’s use on the state’s Open Data portal, data.ct.gov.”

Opinion: Casting shade on Virginia’s ‘Sunshine Law’ (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

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Richmond Times-Dispatch: Opinion: Casting shade on Virginia’s ‘Sunshine Law’. “What was once the domain of overreaching politicians and campaign-season hyperbole, the idea that U.S. democracy is under attack means something different in 2023. Meanwhile, perhaps our best tool for combating propaganda and misinformation — the Freedom of Information Act — continues to get treated in the Virginia General Assembly like a bureaucratic nuisance.”

Federal News Network: FOIA backlogs on the rise after record number of requests

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Federal News Network: FOIA backlogs on the rise after record number of requests . “Freedom of Information Act backlogs soared at some key agencies after the public filed a record number of FOIA requests in fiscal 2022. Agencies received 928,353 requests last year and processed 878,420 requests, both record highs, according to the Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy. Agencies were required to upload their fiscal 2022 annual FOIA reports by March 1.”

Minnesota Department of Health: New prescription drug price transparency dashboard, report show high and varied prices

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Minnesota Department of Health: New prescription drug price transparency dashboard, report show high and varied prices. “The first-of-its-kind data release for Minnesota was issued today by MDH as part of the implementation of the Minnesota Prescription Drug Price Transparency (RxPT) initiative. It gives Minnesotans new insight into how much drug prices increased in 2022 and at what prices new drugs came to the market. These detailed data are available in several interactive dashboards, giving Minnesota policymakers and payers additional information to begin addressing high drug prices.”

Irish Times: State accused of ‘stonewalling’ and ‘hiding evidence’ over Magdalene laundries

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Irish Times: State accused of ‘stonewalling’ and ‘hiding evidence’ over Magdalene laundries. “The Government has been accused of stonewalling requests for access to the archives chronicling the State’s involvement in Magdalene laundries, despite a 2020 finding by the Information Commissioner that it is covered by Freedom of Information (FOI).”

Baltimore Sun: Baltimore launches new public safety accountability dashboard with crime, arrest, conviction metrics

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Baltimore Sun: Baltimore launches new public safety accountability dashboard with crime, arrest, conviction metrics. “The Public Safety Accountability Dashboard… will offer the public a view of police and court data broken down by neighborhood, police district and crime types. It also will offer metrics around neighborhood demographics and the city’s community violence intervention sites, including Safe Streets locations and hospital-based sites.”