Dallas presents daily parks safety dashboard; council members press for police data integration and broader public input

Dallas Parks and the city’s Office of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence presented a new Dallas Parks Safety Dashboard to the Parks, Trails, and the Environment Committee on Oct. 6, 2025. The dashboard automates ranger and marshal reporting, updates daily, and shows visits, infractions, trail miles and compliance rates across the city’s parks and trails.

The dashboard is intended to speed internal decisions and increase transparency by moving reporting from a quarterly to a daily cadence, officials said. Committee members pressed staff on how the dashboard ties into Dallas Police Department (DPD) records, how response times will be captured, and how community feedback shaped the tool.

Kevin Mundy, superintendent of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department, said the dashboard is a collaboration with the Office of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence and that it reflects priorities in the department’s park safety and security strategic plan.

“Ranger and marshal reporting was occurring quarterly, and they wanted to increase that rate,” Doctor Brenda Andrzejk, chief data officer and director of the Office of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence, said. “It would have taken approximately 60-ish hours to produce this report manually from their various sources. We were able to automate it so they receive it daily.”

Jocelyn Guerrero, who demonstrated the tool, said the dashboard includes two pages: a park rangers page and a marshals page. The ranger page…