Tami P. Sullivan, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, visited the White House on April 21 to participate in a national policy event on data and partner violence.
The roundtable discussion was entitled, “Opportunities & Challenges: Open Police Data Initiatives and the Impact on Victims of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault.”
According to a White House news release, the discussion brought together domestic violence and sexual assault advocates, law enforcement, government officials, and technology and privacy experts.
The stakeholders discussed how police open data initiatives can align with the privacy and safety concerns of intimate partner violence and sexual assault victims while promoting the transparency and accountability objectives of city governments and law enforcement agencies.