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ATL311 Customer Service Platform

Atlanta launched a cloud-based 311 CRM system in October 2014 — one of the first major US cities to do so — giving residents phone, web, app, chatbot and social-media channels to report potholes, watershed and code issues, routed to city departments including ATLDOT. A City Auditor's Office performance audit published in October 2024, covering January 2023 to early 2024, found staff met or exceeded most performance metrics, but flagged inadequate staffing, gaps in ADA accessibility compliance, and that 74% of separated employees (54 of 73) failed to promptly return city equipment, in some cases over 35 business days late.

Live 📅 since 2014

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-02

🏛️ Governance Digital government Open data Citizen participation

📊 Impact

City Auditor's Office performance audit (Oct 2024, covering Jan 2023–early 2024): staff met or exceeded most metrics, but 74% of separated employees (54 of 73) failed to promptly return city equipment, and ATL311 fell short of full ADA accessibility compliance.

🎓 Lesson

An independent city audit found a well-performing 311 desk (most metrics met) undercut by mundane back-office failures — equipment returns and accessibility — the kind of finding that never appears in launch press releases.

Evidence📊 Independent

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: Civic participation platform · Digital identity · Open data

Sources

↗ City of Atlanta, "City of Atlanta Launches ATL311"launch date (Oct 22, 2014), cloud-based CRM claim, 'one of the first major cities'

↗ Atlanta City Auditor's Office, ATL311 performance audit summary (October 2024)independent audit findings: metrics mostly met, staffing concerns, equipment-return non-compliance, ADA gaps

↗ City of Atlanta, Department of Customer Service / ATL311current channels (phone/web/app/chatbot/social), ATLDOT routing

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “ATL311 Customer Service Platform” — Atlanta, United States. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/atlanta-atl311/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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