9:37pm–#Bridgeport CT– A 2002 Suzuki was taken at gunpoint on Freemont Street in Bridgeport. At 9:57pm–#Stratford Police located the vheicle that crashed at Jackson and Bruce Street. A foot pursuit in the backyards on Jackson Avenue nets one in custody and one still at large. Stratford does have a K-9 on scene.
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5:57pm–#Bridgeport CT– A person was robbed at gunpoint on Brooklawn Place at the intersection of Laurel Place taking the victims cash, car keys and cellphone. The suspect, a black male about six feet tall wearing a black jacket and winter hat displayed a silver handgun. They fled down Brooklawn Place on foot.
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5:49pm–#Bridgeport CT– A woman parked her car at the intersection of Salem and Main Street to run into a store. When she returned the window of her mini-van was smashed and her purse was taken.
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BRIDGEPORT, CT – Mayor Joe Ganim joined Connecticut State Comptroller Kevin Lembo Wednesday to launch a project now under construction called“OpenBridgeport” – an online portal through which the public will be able to search real-time city financial information. This information includes both revenues and expenditures, such as how much the city has received in taxes and fees, or how much is being paid to certain vendors and under what line items, for example. OpenBridgeport is modeled after the state’s “OpenConnecticut” website (www.osc.ct.gov/openct) launched by Comptroller Lembo in 2013 that publishes the state’s financial information in an effort to improve public access to important state revenue and spending data.
“When I ran for mayor last year I said we needed to open up Bridgeport’s government so the taxpayers can see how their money is being spent, and I meant it,” Ganim said. “I am grateful for the partnership with Comptroller Lembo to launch OpenBridgeport. This is the first step of many that will reinforce our commitment to government accountability and transparency, allowing all city residents access to real-time city financial data. It’s your money, and now you are going to be able to see exactly how the city is spending it.”
Comptroller Lembo said, “Mayor Ganim’s commitment to OpenBridgeport will give residents from Connecticut’s largest city greater access to public financial information than ever before. I am hopeful that Mayor Ganim’s leadership on this will inspire towns and cities across the state that don’t already do so to open their financial books in the same way. I look forward to working with Mayor Ganim on this important open government project.”
The point person from the city of Bridgeport on the “OpenBridgeport” project is Ed Adams, longtime FBI senior investigator and now advisor to Mayor Ganim for public integrity and government transparency.
Adams said, “Mayor Ganim has pledged an open, honest and transparent city government. This initiative is a huge step to attain these goals. OpenBridgeport will deliver transparency and establish an easily searchable database for the use of all residents.”
Once completed, OpenBridgeport will allow users to easily explore highly detailed financial information, including how much the city spends on its various services and how much was paid to individual vendors. It will allow users to find out how much the city budgeted for services, and how spending is trending throughout the fiscal year. In partnership with the State of Connecticut, Bridgeport is in the process of preparing its financial data so that it can be uploaded to the same open data platform now used by the state. The project is expected to take approximately three to four months to complete before the website goes live.
Moeties Brown was taken into custody early this morning by the Fugitive Task Force for the armed robberies that occurred at 129 Wood Avenue (J&M Market) and 1073 Hancock Avenue ( Delicias Del Pueblo), Southport Pizza delivery man at 168 Williston Street.
Moeties will also have a warrant for the Bella Napoli Pizza deliveryman robbery that occurred on Pembroke Street and is being investigated for several other robberies throughout the city.
(Bridgeport Police Press Release)
10:09am–#Bridgeport CT– There was a house break in and tools were taken in the 300 block of Wilmont Avenue according to radio reports.
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7:50pm–#Bridgeport CT– Beechmont Market at 464 Beechmont Avenue was just robbed at gunpoint by 3 males.
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7:27pm–#Bridgeport CT– Police were at Marina Village for two parents who were allegedly doing drugs and attempting to hurt themselves according to radio reports. Their three young children ran to a neighbor.
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Your personal information from your voting information like your party affiliation, your phone number and address is online by PRIVATE websites like http://connvoters.com. Date of birth information is important information for identity theft. Phone numbers are great for telemarketers. Your home address is great for stalkers. Even Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill, who is in charge of voting in the state is listed.
Is this legal? The site says “The State of Connecticut provides this information to anybody who wants it.” Connvoters.com continues “You do not own the information. It is public information. In a free country, anybody may freely communicate true facts lawfully obtained from a public record. Read on for the removal request option.”
There is a link to get your name removed, but to quote the page: “Any comments should be directed to — We do not honor removal requests sent via email and we do not check the emails often.” Any politician, police officer, judge, anyone who is registered to vote has their information on this and other sites that solicit voter information. Even if you request your information to be taken down it is a request and there is no law requiring them or any other website that harvests individuals information to take it down.
There are hundreds of websites that harvest your information, like this list http://www.internetremoval.com/directory/. It has 267 pages with 150 listings per page, that is over 40,000 sites listed. You will have to check each one to and request your information be removed. That is if they are in the United States and will comply with your request and our laws.
Granted many of us divulge a lot of personal information on social media sites like Facebook. But we don’t normally post our phone number or street address. With sensitive information like your address, phone number and date of birth free for the taking, should our legislators work to make sensitive information like this harder to obtain? Did you even know your information was going to be shared when you registered to vote? At least on social media you have the Terms of Service that we usually click “I agree” without reading, but there was no warning that your information was going to be shared when you registered to vote!
12:57pm–#cttraffic–#Westport CT–A crash with injuries on I-95 southbound just south of exit 18. Traffic is barely getting by in the right lane. Detour if you can.
