Over the past two months we've interviewed 109 business owners and prospective business owners from across the state, ranging from sole proprietors to newly-formed LLCs to mid-size companies in heavily regulated industries to businesses just hiring their first employee to business owners that didn't know they had to register at all. From minority and women
Each interview we do is…
Dear Washingtonians!
A lot has been in the news lately about bad actors taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic, including imposters filing for unemployment benefits across the country using personal information obtained from large scale breaches.
While imposter fraud is a serious problem, it represents only a small part of the overall threat. Sometimes we spend so much time…
Thank you for playing this year's Hacktober quiz! Overall, the game garnered more than 23,000 responses from state employees during the month.
The Hacktober campaign was aimed at raising awareness for Washington state's 65,000 employees and encouraging conversation about the role everyone plays to safeguard public data, and protect critical services.
We had several requests…
Alex Alben and Will Saunders each have a session at the Attorney General's CLE day on 11/8
Here's Will's presentation, covering the basics of Open Data, open licenbses, and data sharing
Powerpoint -- Open Data CLE
The Washington Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) at the Office of Financial Management provides access to crime statistics through several methods; CrimeStats Online, the Uniform Crime Report (UCR), and the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS). There is a web-based interface that allow users to query Washington crime data online, and the UCR and NIBRS data are available in Excel…
