Mayor Steven M. Fulop announced April 28, 2015 that Open JC, a project of Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, has been awarded just over $250,000 from a Google Ideas grant made through the Tides Foundation, to pilot a ‘smart’ crime alert system for Jersey City residents in partnership with the City. Through the pilot system, residents in the selected areas will receive alerts on their mobile devices about crime incidents from the Jersey City Police Department’s open data from the 911 system.

1. Jersey City
Public Safety Alert System (PSAS)
April 28, 2015
STEVEN M.
FULOP
Mayor of Jersey City
South Greenville Neighborhood Association
Community Briefing

2. @UELsimon
EMMANUEL A. SIMON | emmanuel@openjc.org
+
@AkzasCreator
AKISIA GRIGSBY | akisia@openjc.org
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Founding Partners & Co-Executive Directors

3. The Path
How to Start a
Civic-Tech Movement
PSAS
program
at
Stage I

4. CodeforJC:
• Host Transportation
Hackathon
Birth of CodeforJC,
a Code for America
Brigade
(formerly Open JC Brigade)
Partners with fiscal
agent:
Friendship Ambassador’s
Foundation (FAF.org)
Birth of Open JC Non-Profit
Open JC Brigade
changes name to Code for JC
Open JC Founding Partners speak at
Annual Youth Assembly at the United
Nations, NYC webcasted live to 3 million
CodeforJC:
Partners with Port Authority & Saint Peter’s
University to host PATH Data Jam
• Pre-CodeforJC advocacy:
Akisia Grigsby & Emmanuel
Simon advocate
Open JC Partners with Google Ideas
to build JC Public Safety Alert System
OUR HISTORY
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5. Empower residents
to improve their quality of life using technology-driven solutions
MISSION
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6. Follow us: @weareopenjc#JCPSAS #PublicSafety
We create, implement and manage sustainable
civic programs that impact communities through
the intertwining of technology products, community
engagement and partnerships.
OUR GOAL

7. • Communities with
a focus on Youth
& Young Adults
• Government
People
• Implement
Technology-driven
Solutions
• Introduce Business &
Technology
Education
Action
• Improve the
Quality of Life
of Residents
in Local
Communities
Impact
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HOW?

8. ACCOMPLISHMENTS & METRICS
PATH
Data Jam
• 1st to get open data from
Port Authority of NY/NJ.
• 8 projects resulted
• Impacted Port Authority leadership
(They begin hosting hackathons and
made data more open and readily
available.)
• Data resulted in it being used at NYC
& NJ college Data Science courses.
• 1900 students spent time coding.
• Engaged Jessica Alba and middle
school students in a video conference.
• Spoke to 600 attending students
from all over the world.
• Panel discussion webcasted live to
3 million youth globally.
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9. Jersey City
Public Safety Alert System (PSAS)
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10. Example: BIKE THEFTS
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11. 911
Call
Center
Police
Dispatcher
Officer
(updates
reports)
Police
Dispatcher
(updates,
closes out)
?
Caller
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911 CALL CENTER FLOW
#JCPSAS #PublicSafety

12. Alert SMS
Broadcast to
subscribers
Alert SMS
Created
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PSAS FLOW
Data is
translated,
stored and
indexed
Data is
analyzed for
crime trends
Top crime
trends are
matched to
appropriate
public safety
messages
Complete
SMS content
is combined
(Message+
JCPD ph#)
SMS
message is
sent to
mobile phone
of subscriber
(based on
district)
Police 911
call data
sent to PSAS
(daily)
Subscriber
receives
message
and takes
appropriate
action
Message
Match-up
JCPD
911 Call Data
Data Data
Analysis
Public Safety Alert System
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13. SAMPLE MESSAGE
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14. Prototype Development Beta Development + Testing
Conduct Pilot +
Evaluate Program
NOW SUMMER FALL
Technology
Stream
Community
Enagagement
Stream
Recommitment
Briefings
Surveys / User Research
Pilot
Participation
Pilot
Review
Pre-Pilot
Updates +
Registration
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PSAS PILOT ROADMAP
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15. Historic Paulus
Hook Association
South Greenville
Neighborhood
Association
Bayview Park
Neighborhood
Association
Community Government Non-Government Private
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OUR PARTNERS
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16. NEED A BRANDED NAME
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Have a good name for the program?
(PSAS is boring.)
Tell us what you want to call it!
jcpsas@openjc.org

17. HOW TO PARTICIPATE
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• Say YES!
• Complete the survey to confirm desire to participate in pilot
• Send your questions and suggestions to jcpsas@openjc.org