Santa Cruz Police keep a list of houses in the city that have been cited for loud and unruly instances in the past year. They update the list every two weeks. If you’re searching for a place to live (or a great party), it’s nice to know where the noise is coming from.
Our database with the SCPD’s loud and unruly addresses was down since February, but back up in time for those lining up a place to live in the fall. We’ve also added a handy map:
View Cited for loud and unruly in Santa Cruz in a larger map
It’s Friday night, and we know we’re a little early, but we’re in training for Santa Cruz County high school football season.
Longtime Sentinel sports reporter Jim Seimas is busy attending practices and talking to coaches.
Today, the online team dove deep into Seimas’ statistical archive.
Seimas has been keeping meticulous records and they’ve been used in a wide variety of ways over the years, but the online team thinks these stats need to be liberated.
So they’re on the way to a Sentinel.com sports page near you. Here’s a sample of what we’ve got in mind:
These aren’t official, haven’t been double-checked and will be updated over time (let us know if you see glitches), but we’ve got a ton of information to share.
When the season begins, the sports department plans to have live scoring updates, photos, slide shows, occasional video and all the stats and stories. We also plan to open a season-long scoreboard. Fans, coaches, team managers and bench-warmers are welcome to text updates through twitter (#sccfb) – or to log on to the site and share photos, observations, good-natured taunting, encouragement and occasional debate.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked cities to post their salaries in the wake of the Bell scandal.
We’ve been working on posting public salaries and a wide variety of public information on Sentinel.com for the past two years.
Upcoming, we’ve got the Santa Cruz Metro salary database. We believe that publishing this information helps the community avoid the kind of scandal that has hit Bell, and we think you deserve to have a clear look at how your tax money is spent.
There’s a ton of data about the Santa Cruz community, and part of our job now and going forward is to help organize that data and help you sort through it. We’ve done some partnering with Santa Cruz Public Libraries to share their database of community services.
We’ve been posting real estate transactions, and we’ve recently added Santa Cruz Police’s crime map and the Sheriff’s crime map.
Here’s one reporter’s account about the value of data to newrooms.
Has your organization been gathering data? Want to share and display that database? Have a good idea for the Sentinel and community data? Drop us a line.
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