These comments address the testimony D.C. Attorney General Peter J. Nickles submitted on behalf of his office, District Secretary Stephanie Scott and Chief Technology Officer Bryan Sivak regarding Bill 18-777, the Open Government Act of 2010. The Board of the D.C. Open Government Coalition takes this opportunity to reiterate the Coalition...
The D.C. Freedom of Information Act provides that each city agency with a website make available on that site all records falling within 10 categories of information, if the records were created on or after November 1, 2001....
At the D.C. Open Government Coalition event on Thursday night, Councilmember Mary M. Cheh, who is chair of the Committee on Government Operations and the Environment, promised to hold a hearing soon on both her Freedom of Information Act-reform legislation as well as Councilmember Muriel Bowser’s open meetings reform bill. In...