RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Raleigh Police Department has announced a partnership with the social networking company Nextdoor to share information about crime and safety with city residents.
Founded in 2010, Nextdoor is a high-tech version of a neighborhood Listserv and allows residents to interact virtually with one another.
Police say the service will be used to tailor crime alerts and safety tips to particular parts of town.
“It will allow us to send targeted information to specific neighborhoods, to groups of neighborhoods and to sections of the city,” Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown said during a news conference Wednesday
The News and Observer reports (https://bit.ly/1LpaBLg ) that Nextdoor, founded in 2010, limits access to people in a particular neighborhood. Before joining a network, people must verify that they live within that specific geographic area.
Joseph Porcelli, the senior city strategist with Nextdoor, said local governments began using Nextdoor to reach residents a few years ago, and now more than 500 police departments have signed on.
The company says more than 61,000 neighborhoods in the U.S. have their own Nextdoor networks.
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Information from: The News & Observer, https://www.newsobserver.com
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