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Reinvent Albany: NYPD Takes Major Open Data Step: Publishes 10 Years of Crime Data
Press Release from Reinvent Albany: NYC Comptroller for Issues First Tax-Break Data in U.S. Under New Accounting Rule
Three non-profit watchdog groups today lauded New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer for being the first government officer in the United States to comply with a new accounting rule requiring the disclosure of how much revenue is lost to corporate tax breaks given for economic development. More than 50,000 state and local government bodies are expected to issue such data over the next two years.
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A year after a policy update, NYC grapples with ‘the next level’ of open data
A year after updating its open data policy, New York City is pushing ahead with plans to automatically refresh more of its data sets and tie public records requests to the open data process — moves hailed by open government advocates, even as some worry about the data’s quality.
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New York Mayor De Blasio insists his latest scheme is ‘appropriate’
Mayor de Blasio emerged from hiding Thursday — after ducking reporters for more than a week — to defend his much-maligned decision to withhold communications with five confidants outside the government.
De Blasio used the word “appropriate” at least 10 times during a Washington Heights press conference to explain why his administration decided to exempt communications with the confidants from routine public disclosure. Continue…
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