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Fix broken FAQ links: update Oakland, Fremont, and Census data sources (#136)
### 📜 Description - Describe the general shape of this PR (new feature? refactor? bug fix? one-line change?) Bug fix - Describe what changes are being made Updated broken links in the FAQ page: - Replaced deprecated American FactFinder with data.census.gov - Updated Oakland Open Data Portal link to official site - Replaced Fremont GIS portal with CA Open Data filtered results - Describe why these changes are being made Some links in the FAQ were outdated or no longer accessible, which negatively impacts user experience. - List the use cases and edge cases relevant to this PR Users accessing FAQ links will now be directed to valid and working data sources. - Describe how errors will be handled. How will we know if this code breaks in production Low risk change. Only static links were updated. Any issue would be visible immediately if links fail to open. - Describe any external libraries/dependencies added or removed in this PR None - Describe any security risks are there regarding this change None - Describe how you tested these changes Manually opened and verified each updated link in the browser. - Link to relevant external documentation https://data.census.gov/ https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/data https://data.ca.gov/search?q=fremont -------------------------- ### 📋 Mandatory Checklist - [x] Linked to the Github Issues being addressed using the right sidebar ➡️ - [ ] Have you discussed these changes with the project leader(s)? - [x] Do all variable and function names communicate what they do? - [x] Were all the changes commented and / or documented? - [x] Is the PR the right size? - [x] Does all work in progress, temporary, or debugger code have a TODO comment with links to Github issues? - [ ] *If you changed the user interface, did you add before and after screenshots to below?* -------------------------- ### 🖼️ Screenshots and Screen Recordings #### Before N/A #### After N/A <!--- Add after screenshots here --> <img width="1440" height="900" alt="Screen Shot 2026-03-27 at 7 08 58 AM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/91f5991a-5fd2-40e4-8d5e-fd0a7ff0f50e" /> -------------------------- ### 📘 Glossary - PR = Pull Request
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Data Portal</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://datasf.org/opendata/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noref">San Fransico Open
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Data Portal</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://data.oaklandnet.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noref">Oakland Open Data
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<li><a href="https://data.oaklandca.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noref">Oakland Open Data
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Portal</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://egis-cofgis.opendata.arcgis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noref">Fremont
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Open GIS Data Portal</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://fremont-ca-open-data-cofgis.hub.arcgis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noref">City of Fremont Open Data Portal</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://data.acgov.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noref">Alameda County Open Data
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Portal</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Federal Data Sources</h4>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.data.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noref">U.S. Government open data
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portal</a></li>
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<li>U.S. Census Data on <a href="https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml"
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target="_blank" rel="noopener noref">American Factfinder</a> or via
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<li>U.S. Census Data on <a href="https://data.census.gov/"
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target="_blank" rel="noopener noref">data.census.gov</a> or via
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the <a href="https://www.census.gov/developers/">Census API</a></li>
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<li>Third-party
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sources of U.S Census Data such as

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