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Editor’s Note 05/03/23: The submission above has been marked as “Completed.”
Since 2018 we have published many requests related to this topic. Most recently, in November 2022:
– https://www.sunshinerequest.com/records_request/apd-dates-employment/
– https://www.sunshinerequest.com/records_request/apd-police-officer-roster/
Throughout this process, you can see where we have requested various points of clarification from the City, and were provide with many explanations or web links from Liz, Brad, Allison, etc. For example:
– https://data-avl.opendata.arcgis.com/
– https://data-avl.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/4d96bf8fbad640edbe124fe7185ba670_0/explore?filters=eyJkZXBhcnRtZW50IjpbIlBvbGljZSJdfQ%3D%3DWe’ve been told by the City that to request APD employee names, positions, dates of hire, we should just use that data link. ^^ You can see that the City’s Open Data Portal for the “EmployeeBaseSalary” data set is up-to-date, and includes: current employee_name , annual_base_pay , hire_date , exempt_group , dept_id , department , div_id , division , jobtitle . Y ou can also Filter the results specifically to show APD employees.
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