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Lockhart police roll out community crime map; department to absorb $100 monthly cost
Summary
Police unveiled a LexisNexis-based community crime map to give residents block-level crime data and email alerts. The department will pay $100 per month; the map omits certain sensitive crimes and updates daily after supervisory approval. Council asked for public outreach and user follow-up workshops.
The Lockhart Police Department demonstrated a new online community-crime map, built through a LexisNexis platform and currently accessible at communitycrimemap.com, that is intended to give residents easier access to recent, block-level crime reports and customizable email alerts.
Police Chief Gary Williamson told council the map displays incidents by icon and clusters, allows date-range filtering and shows a patrol-district layer. Clicking an incident yields a brief, block-level description that excludes…
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