The Justice Department is open to co-creating a new Open Government Plan & adding new commitments to the 5th US NAP for OGP

[Alexander Howard]

Hello all!
Happy Sunday. My apologies for any cross-posting.

Last week, the Justice Department told me they were open to adding new
commitments on FOIA to the 5th U.S. National Action Plan on Open
Government: https://civic-texts.ghost.io/insights-justice-qa-foia/ The
White House continues to refuse – despite the USA joining the Steering
Committee of the Open Government Partnership & the US government's
documented failures to engage the American public & co-create a plan
with us in 2022.

I doubt the DoJ will do either without White House support, though, as
all agencies have been careful to not get ahead of the administration.
As a result, agencies & civil society are all much further behind than
we should be in April 2024.