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Issues to Work on

Freddy Martinez edited this page Oct 27, 2018 · 1 revision

FOIA the Police Design Meeting

Present: Sanjin, Jake, Freddy and Matt

Time: 11 am PST (27/10/2018)

To Cut:

Illinois State Police Asset Forfeiture

Make everything simpler!

To fix:

  • Add a flowchart with the exemptions.
  • Fix Acknowledgments
  • Fix the sidebar, make it look cooler
  • Make the papers animate on first load.
  • What is FOIA? make a decision tree for sending a .

To write (maybe consider cutting?):

  • Invisible Institute’s story about the misconduct data
  • ALPR FOIA
  • Cellebrite FOIA (#Throwback Thursday)
  • Security Cameras? Do we want to scrap?
  • Cook County Civil Asset Forfeiture.

MISC

Cut out the FOIA language (ongoing investigation).

Exemptions, can we just tell people to use common sense (you won't be able to FOIA for Social Security numbers).

Types of requests: We want to show different classes of record that can be requested> Emails vs purchases vs ticketing data

Design: Our stories should show barriers in doing FOIAs. like a literal firewall and how we got over it.

Getting stated advice: just do the first request.

First Request: Templates might be useful. Copy and paste someone else request.

Rejections versus Exemptions. Most rejections aren't because of exemptions

Other ideas: splitting the webpage into two modules and adding design into the sidebar

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