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If you missed this event, check out slides available at links above.

The latest series of DC Open Government Coalition trainings on how to gain access to DC government information began in May 2023 and continues this summer and fall.

Have questions about how to get records from the D.C. government? Getting into public meetings you thought were supposed to be open?

Join the D.C. Open Government Coalition, a group of volunteer watchdogs, for “Digging into D.C.,” a series of community conversations on finding D.C. government information via records and meetings.

In collaboration with the D.C. Public Library, the Coalition will again be offering tips about obtaining information from our city government, and how to keep at it through delay or complications.

Following the first session on access generally, the next two are more specialized — on education and law enforcement information. Expert speakers will offer tips such as:

• Finding the right place to submit records requests (or meetings to attend),
• Submitting a request in a way that gets a useful response the first time,
• What to do about delays, denials, and fees.

Audience interest will suggest further topics. In the upcoming education session some could include:

• differences in access to meetings and records between individual charter schools and their boards of trustees, the Public Charter School Board, and DC Public Schools;
• parents’ rights to see student records and more;
• access to DCPS school budgets, including to meetings and records of Local School Advisory Teams (which advise principals on budget); and
• how to evaluate schools (test scores, official “report cards,” and other ways).

“Digging into D.C.” sessions are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Register here.

E-mail info@dcogc.org for more information.

When: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 — 6 p.m.