Arlington residents now have a new way to stay informed about public safety activity in the community. The Arlington Police Department has partnered with Civic Informer to provide a dedicated online resource for viewing local public safety information, exploring recent activity, and receiving ongoing updates. Residents can explore the site directly or subscribe to the Arlington daily email for summaries of public safety delivered to their inbox each day.
What is Civic Informer?
Civic Informer is a public safety communication platform that works with public safety agencies to make information easier for residents to access, navigate, and follow over time. For Arlington, the platform organizes information from the Arlington Police Department into a community-facing resource where residents can review each day’s calls for service, explore by geography, find urgent communications, and subscribe for ongoing updates. Civic Informer is an additional communication resource for the community. It does not replace the Arlington Police Department’s existing communication channels, emergency notifications, or public records processes.
How to use the Arlington site
- Start at civicinformer.com/arington
- From there, residents can explore recent public safety activity or navigate into more detailed views.
- Daily reports provide an easy way to review activity by date and understand what occurred across the city on a given day, with each report covering the previous day’s activity.
- The interactive map allows residents to filter, explore, and visualize where the Arlington Police Department responds. Locations are shown to the block, never an exact address.
- Neighborhood and local views help residents better understand public safety in their area.
Get the Arlington daily report by email
Residents who want a simple way to stay informed can subscribe to the Arlington daily email. The Arlington daily email provides a convenient summary of recently published Arlington public safety activity, with links back to Civic Informer for residents who want to explore individual events, maps, or additional details. Instead of needing to remember to check the site, subscribers get the latest Arlington report delivered directly to their inbox each day.
About the partnership
The Arlington Police Department and Civic Informer are working together to give residents a new way to follow public safety information in Arlington.
Providing accessible information to our community is an important part of maintaining trust and keeping residents informed. Now the public can see what we respond to and where. This is a good win for the city and for the community, and I’m excited to get it in front of people.
Civic Informer provides the technology and publishing infrastructure behind the Arlington site, while the Arlington Police Department remains the authoritative source for official department information and records. Public safety information can also change as incidents develop, so residents looking for official case information, emergency information, or public records should continue to use the appropriate Arlington Police Department and City of Arlington channels.
Explore Arlington
Visit the official Arlington Civic Informer site at https://civicinformer.com/arlington. The Arlington Police Department and Civic Informer will continue working together to improve the access and usage of public safety information.