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Police are required to notify people they intend to list as gang members in a controversial state database, but local agencies aren’t required to keep records of these notifications. Read More »
Tag Archives: Data
Campaign finance, election results dominate inewsource’s best data projects for 2018
Here are the databases that we think had the most impact in the community in 2018. Read More »
The Weekender for November 3
San Diego County residents have been bombarded with campaign fliers, TV commercials and lawn signs leading up to the general election – now just days away. Read More »
UPDATED: inewsource campaign finance data for San Diego County races
inewsource has updated its San Diego County campaign finance database to capture the most recent fundraising and spending by politicians, ballot measure groups and political action committees in the county. Read More »
Political party spending: How we crunched the numbers
San Diego County’s political parties play a huge role in local elections by spending thousands of dollars to support their candidates. Read More »
Remedial classes: A community college ‘segregation machine’
Hundreds of thousands of community college students are placed in remedial classes every year, and few get past them, especially black and Latino students. Read More »
Mello-Roos tax records: How we crunched the data
The Mello-Roos map is the culmination of months of data mining, cleaning and analysis that allows San Diego County residents can find the taxes they pay. Read More »
Map: Poverty in San Diego County
Search our interactive map of poverty in San Diego County. Read More »
Bedbugs, barking dogs and substandard housing: Mapping San Diego’s complaints
San Diegans filed more than 15,000 complaints with the city for unpermitted buildings, graffiti, hoarders and barking dogs since 2014. We mapped them all. Read More »
Where to find free Thanksgiving dinner
Sure, we could ply you with maps and data, but instead we’ve decided to give you something really relevant for Thanksgiving. Read More »