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President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act

posted by martyb on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the Information-wants-to-be-free dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Washington, D.C. – Today, President Trump signed into law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act (H.R. 4174, S. 2046), which includes the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act (Title II). The package passed Congress on Monday, December 31, 2018.

The OPEN Government Data Act requires all non-sensitive government data to be made available in open and machine-readable formats by default. It establishes Chief Data Officers (CDO) at federal agencies, as well as a CDO Council.

https://www.datacoalition.org/press-releases/president-signs-government-wide-open-data-bill/

exaeta writes:

OPEN Government Data Act passes.

The OPEN Government Data Act will ensure that the federal government releases valuable data sets, follows best practices in data management, and commits to making data available to the public in a non-proprietary and electronic format.

https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/01/open-government-data-act-signed-into-law-establishes-u-s-as-leader-in-open-data/

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/open-government-data-act/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @07:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @07:26PM (#787510)

    There are all kinds of reasons that valid data may not be publicly released. This law will exclude those datasets from any policy making.

    Unless I am wrong, this isn't that law.

    The OPEN Government Data Act requires all non-sensitive government data to be made available in open and machine-readable formats by default. It establishes Chief Data Officers (CDO) at federal agencies, as well as a CDO Council.

    It seems this is just saying that, if the government has data that can be released to the public, it must be, and in easily parsed formats.