Danielle Lafever, Polis GIS Project Coordinator, is teaching IUPUI’s SPEA-J 426-Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety Spring semester 2023. The course explores the capabilities that GIS technology and concepts offer to map, analyze, and inform decision making related to public safety including criminal justice, fire services, emergency management, homeland security, and other city agencies. The students are primarily criminal justice majors.

In Danielle’s role with Polis , she works with Indiana counties creating and updating county mitigation plans that identify risks and ways to minimize damage by natural and manmade disasters