The arrest API had been shut down after The Chicago Reporter used it to disprove official claims about arrests during George Floyd protests.
Author Archives: Matt Chapman
Matt Chapman is a freelance data and systems engineer with a deep love for FOIA and its potential to improve understandings of the world around us. On the side, he works with Lucy Parsons Labs, Invisible Institute, and has managed his own NFP, Free Our Info. His past work includes archival work of global warming websites, Chicago parking tickets analysis and visualization, several FOIA lawsuits, and a project to collect government email metadata from around the U.S.