What US Gov Docs Would You Like to See Published?
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What Gov Docs Would You Like to See Published?
[1]The 1996, yes, 1996 revision of the Freedom of Information Act, known as EFOIA [2], called for federal agencies to post frequently requested documents on their Web sites.
Guess what? Not every agency did it.
But now that transparency is hip, open government advocates have created a Web site [1] so folks can tell the government what documents they would like to see made public.
The site, Show us the Data [1], is a joint project of the OpenTheGovernment.org and the Center for Democracy and Technology. They only have a few votes, but the currently most wanted document is something we wrote about Tuesday [3] -- reports of the Congressional Research Service. CRS reports would not fall under the 1996 EFOIA amendments, but open-records advocates have argued for years that the information should be public.
There aren't a lot of votes on the site yet -- but the site just opened yesterday.
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