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City-County Communications & Marketing Association (3CMA) Savvy Award

updated: Monday, August 23, 2010

GraffitiNet has earned the top honor – a Savvy – from the City-County Communications and Marketing Association (3CMA) in its Communication Technology category for municipalities with a population between 23,000 and 135,000. 3CMA is the leading national organization and professional group for government communicators, and this was our first...

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International Association of Chiefs of Police Community Policing Award 2008

updated: Monday, May 24, 2010

Awarded: June 2008
A crime-fighting software program developed by the city of St. Louis Park has spread regionally and is now internationally known. GraffitiNet, a database that allows police departments to share details on tagging and suspects, received one of four 2008 Community Policing Awards from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

The St. Louis Park Police Department was honored for its innovative new system to help fight graffiti.

GraffitiNet is a computer program, developed by Jason Huber, that allows St. Louis Park and other West Metro cities to share information and pictures of graffiti in their cities. They say taggers usually sign their graffiti the same way each time. Sharing information across cities makes it easier to catch and prosecute specific taggers.

St. Louis Park created and hosts the site, but all cities involved share the cost to run it. There are currently about 7 or 8 other cities using GraffitiNet. Officials say GraffitiNet has led to a 69 percent reduction in reported graffiti.

To learn more about International Association of Chiefs of Police visit: www.theiacp.org

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Local Government Innovation Award Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

updated: Monday, August 23, 2010

The answer was a combination of a public information campaign and GraffitiNet, a web-based site (software developed by Jason Huber) for cities to share pertinent information. This aggregate data has allowed the Hennepin County Attorney to strengthen cases that would otherwise have remained city-specific and has earned the City of St. Louis Park...

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MyNeighborhood Savvy Award 2009

updated: Tuesday, June 22, 2010

myNeighborhood logo2009 Savvy Finalist
3CMA

MyNeighborhood - developed in summer 2008 and released in the September 2008, MyNeighborhood 
is a top three finalist in the Savvy competition from 3CMA for the 2009 Digital Interactive (category).

MyNeighborhood is a custom-built application that allows users to input any address in the City of St. Louis Park to find out information such as polling places, elected representatives, parks within two miles of the address and more.

Click here to see MyNeighborhood web application

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