Bart
Cool!
> 1. The federal government has done a lot to create
> standards on transparency and access via the web. I'd like
> the state government to adopt those standards ... or
> delineate in legislation the minimum standards for state
> agencies.
Sounds quite reasonable. Do you have some pointers into the
federal standards?
> 2. Changes to the state FOIA requests. I'd suggest that a
> double standards exists between private citizens and the
> traditional press. I've found that agencies require
> indefensible fees for very simple requests to be executed.
I'm not sure if it's a "double standard", but the fee
structure could reasonably be a barrier to the use of state
FOIA requests. What are the current fees? Have they
decreased at all as a result of the technology-driven
decrease in cost to the state of answering queries in recent
years? What evidence do we have that these fees are
inhibiting legitimate use of state FOIA?
I like both of these suggestions a lot. Let's all
investigate them and anything anyone else can come up with,
and try to craft a very targeted piece of legislation for
one or two of them?
Bart
Bart