White House launches new initiative to make 'public records' more public. Your thoughts?

2015-07-11T06:11:17-04:00

The Obama administration’s new Open Government initiative began quietly on the agencies’ Web sites days after FOIA’s 49th anniversary. It’s a response to years of pressure from open-government groups and lawmakers to boost public access to records of government decisions, deliberations and policies.

The “release to one is release to all” policy will start as a six-month pilot at the EPA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Millennium Challenge Corporation and within some offices at the Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Department, the Justice Department and the National Archives and Records Administration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/10/white-house-to-make-public-records-more-public/

White House to make public records more public

As documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act are released to the requester, they will also be made public by some agencies.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Jul 11 at 2015 6:14 AM

2015-07-11T06:14:22-04:00

As long as the White House is willing to make their own records releasable under the FOIA and not exempting themselves like they have in the past, this is a good thing.