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Today, Open Government Foundation, Inc., announced the ability to check how often New York City and State Legislators vote independently along with viewing past and current legislation, attendance, and voting records at NewYork.OpenLegislation.org. “We released how often legislators cast what type of votes and how often these votes coincided with their legislative body’s leadership. The numbers [...] OpenLegislation.org is proud to announce the addition of New York State Senate committee attendance for 1999 through 2008 to NewYork.OpenLegislation.org. OpenLegislation.org is proud to have testified before the New York City Council Committee on Technology and Government Chaired by Council Member Gale Brewer on Introuction Number 991 of 2009: Open Data Standards. Our testmony called for the adoption of the eight principles of open data, summarized existing freedom of information law and associated 25 [...] Today, Open Government Foundation, Inc., announced the availability of voting records for the New York State Assembly and Senate from 1995 to June 12, 2009, with the launch of its beta site NewYork.OpenLegislation.org. Also available on the site is a collection of free, searchable/sortable/filterable bill tracking RSS feeds as well as the Legislature’s 2008 attendance [...] OpenLegislation.org is proud to announce its first New York State Legislative Tools and Public Records are now online at NewYork.OpenLegislation.org where you can track current legislation through our Unofficial NYS Assembly Bill Tracking (RSS), look up floor votes on any legislation since 1995, for the first time available to the general public, or check on [...] In response to President Obama’s launch of DATA.GOV, and the Sunlight Foundation’s Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge, OpenLegislation.org created a Twitter feed for DATA.GOV called datagov_tweets using the Unofficial DATA.GOV feed from Sunlight Labs‘ open source library.
datagov_tweets is updated on a regular basis and provides a notice that new information has been added, [...] OpenLegislation.org has begun its “Fifty State Project to OpenLegislation to You the People: Setting Your Legislation and Laws FREE, One State at a Time.” Our first State is New York and we have sent a freedom of information law (FOIL) request to the New York State Assembly and Senate, as well as the New [...] |
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