Oklahoma Data Exchange connects the people and systems that serve our state.
ODX is a team of bridge builders and technologists working to establish the infrastructure that allows data to flow among the governmental and nonprofit organizations that serve Oklahomans. Starting from a foundation of trust among partner organizations, we aim to facilitate both the legal governance and the technological tools to modernize work for the public good.
Our Team
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Ryan Gentzler
Executive Director
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Sabrina Leggett
Lead Data Engineer
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Andrew Bell
Data Engineer
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Shelley Branum
Director of Operations
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Michael Andres
Director of Development
Our Story
Efforts to reform Oklahoma’s criminal justice system over the last decade have stressed the need for better data to operate systems efficiently and inform decision making, from Vera Institute’s 2016 report on the Oklahoma County jail to the statewide MODERN Task Force report in 2023.
Service organizations, law enforcement agencies, courts, and jails hold crucial data on the people they interact with, but this data largely remains siloed within the organization that collects it. Many legacy information technology systems were not designed to communicate with other systems. Without the ability to share data effectively, the same information must be collected and entered by each agency at each step of the process.
ODX aims to build data capacity across the justice system and beyond to give frontline workers and decision-makers timely access to trustworthy data from incident to reintegration.