In 2013, the city of Tulsa created its Open Tulsa website, which now has 35 datasets published.
The number of datasets, compared to cities that have released 10 times the amount, doesn’t adequately reflect the level of commitment by the city; it illustrates the lack of support and advocacy from stakeholders to demand more. Continue…
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Jersey City officials announced today the launch of a revamped online portal that will provide residents easier access to public data.
The new Jersey City Open Data Portal, which gives residents access to a wide range of information — from city budgets to maps of bike lanes — includes enhanced data mapping and visualization features, and what officials describe is a more advanced software platform. Continue…
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October 11, 2015
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Read More… from NFOIC Names New Officers/Board Members at 2015 Annual FOI Summit
It’s typically impossible to find any San Francisco politician or community group opposed to more openness in government, but Proposition E has managed to do just that.
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Read More… from SF’s Prop. splits allies over open government
Florida Democrats are demanding the public be allowed "real time" access into the behind-the-scenes process of map drawing being conducted by House and Senate staff in preparation for next week's special session to realign Senate district boundaries.
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Read More… from Florida Democrats demand map-drawing transparency
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed the State Bar of California’s annual dues bill, allowing the agency to collect dues and stay in business another year.
But mandates under Senate Bill 387 include new requirements for greater transparency, financial accountability and improved attorney-discipline reporting. Continue…
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Read More… from California’s approval of funding bill continues State Bar reforms
The uniquely restrictive New York State law that is used to conceal the disciplinary histories of police officers — even some who have committed crimes — reared its head again last week in misconduct proceedings against the officer who brutalized the retired tennis player James Blake during a mistaken arrest in Manhattan last month.
The state law on officers’ histories is the only one of its kind in the nation. Continue…
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Read More… from Editorial: New York law hides police misconduct from the public
Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos plans a third biennial "Transparency Tour."
The tour will stop at 12 locations across the state to discuss Vermont’s public records and open meeting laws with municipal and state employees and citizens who serve on local government boards. Continue…
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When Ohioans find their access to government thwarted and sue to assert their open-government rights, the odds are stacked against them in the Ohio Supreme Court.
So finds a recent analysis by the Ohio Coalition for Open Government in a report that examines 32 such cases between 2010 and this year. Of those cases, only 12 rulings favored open government. The remaining 20 decisions went the other way. Continue…
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Public access to footage from police dashboard cameras and body cameras in New Jersey may be in jeopardy if an appellate court ruling in June is allowed to stand, warns Middlesex County state Superior Court Judge Travis Francis.
The ruling pertains to an exemption of police video recordings under New Jersey's Open Public Records Act, which the appellate court reviewed in North Jersey Media Group v. Lyndhurst. Continue…
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Read More… from N.J. judge: Police videos may soon be ‘shielded in secrecy’
