Two years ago, the city of Chattanooga adopted an "open data" policy that made public huge amounts of information gathered every day by local government agencies.
Now a small nonprofit organization is calling on Hamilton County government to follow suit.
Metro Ideas Project, an independent, nonprofit research startup based in Chattanooga, has released a new project, Open Hamilton, that argues as much.
A report and tool kit presents what benefits the group sees in adopting such a policy, which members say would enhance public access to information ranging from sheriff's office incident reports to tax and appraisal data.