The Office of the D.C. Auditor may include the probe in its work plan for fiscal 2021.
Broken streetlight? Pothole? Unsightly graffiti? These are but a small sampling of the sorts of things you can call 311 for in D.C. But now you can report problems using your phone in a different way—the DC311 app.
Our Fox Mulder-esque search for the truth about this morning’s blasting continues! DCist was able to get in touch with Shannon Whalen-McDaniel, a spokesperson for Arlington County, regarding the possibility that the noise had originated from the work which is currently going on at the Rosslyn Metro station.
Were you awakened by loud, booming noises which started at about 6 a.m. this morning and resonated throughout the District? Your editor-in-chief slept right through them over here at DCist HQ, but most of the city wasn’t as fortunate.
In yesterday’s Go Home Already, I bemoaned the fact that D.C. was lacking an equivalent to this awesome map of New York City’s 311 service requests. As it turns out, I just needed to do a little more digging around the Office of the Chief Technology Officer’s data website.
There was some lamentation in the local tech community over D.C. Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra’s decision to leave city government for a post with the Obama administration. Under Kundra’s watch the Office of the CTO did some cool things, most notably the city data catalog and the Apps for Democracy contest (which was a great idea, even if the money-saving numbers quoted in relation to it are transparently ridiculous). But — the occasional FBI…
Mayor Adrian Fenty is going to make an official announcement next week that the Mayor’s Citywide Call Center, currently 727-1000, will change its number to 311. Yesterday on the MPD-maintained email listserves, a police spokesperson posted messages indicating there had been a change in policy in when and under what circumstances residents should call 311 versus 911. Penn Quarter Living pointed out the message on the 1st District listserv, and we found a similar one…
