***On August 30, 2022, the Baton Rouge Police Department switched to a new crash reporting system. This dataset contains data from 1/1/2021 to 8/29/2022. To view traffic incident data prior to January 1, 2021 please use the Legacy Baton Rouge Traffic Incidents (2010-2020) dataset at https://data.brla.gov/Transportation-and-Infrastructure/Legacy-Baton-Rouge-Traffic-Incidents/2tu5-7kif

Original records for all vehicular crashes that occurred within the City of Baton Rouge which were not processed by the Center for Analytics & Research in Transportation Safety (CARTS) at LSU.

This dataset provides a full listing of all East Baton Rouge Parish retail food inspections conducted by the Louisiana Department of Health.

Pie chart showing all building permits for the current year by permit type

This dataset displays all facilities, properties and amenities operated by the East Baton Rouge Parish Recreation and Park Commission (BREC). This includes all public parks, golf courses, community centers, and special purpose recreational facilities (such as the Baton Rouge Zoo).

The amenity columns (BMX, Fishing Access, Tennis Courts, etc) indicate with a Yes or No whether that amenity exists at each park.

Listing of all purchase orders and contracts issued to procure goods and/or services within City-Parish.

In the City-Parish, a PO/Contract is made up of two components: a header and one or many detail items that comprise the overarching PO/Contract. The header contains information that pertains to the entire PO/Contract. This includes, but is not limited to, the total amount of the PO/Contract, the department requesting the purchase and the vendor providing the goods or services. The detail item(s) contain information that is specific to the individual item ordered or service procured through the PO/Contract. The item/service description, item/service quantity and the cost of the item is located within the PO/Contract details. There may be one or many detail items on an individual PO/Contract. For example, a Purchase Order for a computer equipment may include three items: the computer, the monitor and the base software package.

Both header information and detail item information are included in this dataset in order to provide a comprehensive view of the PO/Contract data. The Record Type field indicates whether the record is a header record (H) or detail item record (D). In the computer purchase example from above, the system would display 4 records – one header record and 3 detail item records.

It should be noted header information will be duplicated on all detail items. No detail item information will be displayed on the header record.

***In October of 2017, the City-Parish switched to a new system used to track PO/Contracts. This data contains all PO/Contracts entered in or after October 2017. For prior year data, please see the Legacy Purchase Order dataset https://data.brla.gov/Government/Legacy-Purchase-Orders/54bn-2sqf

This dataset is a combination of attribute information from the master address table that is associated with the center point of building footprints. If there is no building, then the point is the center of the lot. The address information comes from a variety of sources including Public Works building permits, E-911 telephone database, Polk City Directory, and field data collection.

Dataset used to support the Open Checkbook BR web portal (http://checkbook.brla.gov). This data set contains department level City-Parish spending. Some expenditures are not included as they are not tied to a particular department.

In an effort to protect certain information telephone numbers and account numbers are masked with X's. Also, the Check Number field only includes the last 4 digits of the check number.

To see all expenditures please visit the City-Parish Expenditures data set (https://data.brla.gov/Government/City-Parish-Expenditures/vwa8-ps2a)

Crimes reported in Baton Rouge and handled by the Baton Rouge Police Department. Crimes include Burglaries (Vehicle, Residential and Non-residential), Robberies (Individual and Business), Theft, Narcotics, Vice Crimes, Assault, Nuisance, Battery, Firearm, Homicides, Criminal Damage to Property, Sexual Assaults and Juvenile. In order to protect the privacy of sexual assault victims and juvenile victims, these incidents are not geocoded and will not be mapped.

Please see the disclaimer in the Attachments section of the About page.

This dataset contains the location and attribute information about all of the street lights in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. This includes lighting along neighborhood streets and major roads.

Monthly sales tax collections by tax period for 2% City of Baton Rouge sales tax, 2% Unincorporated EBR Parish sales tax, and the combined 2% City-Parish sales tax. Figures are presented as “regular” collections (collected by City-Parish Revenue Division), vehicle tax only collections (collected by the State Department of Public Safety) and the total collections including vehicle tax.