Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Open data bill passes City Council

Baltimore’s City Council signed off on a bill focused on the city’s open data program.

The bill, sponsored by Councilman Brandon Scott, takes steps to make the open data program permanent.

Until now, the program has been governed by an executive order issued by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in 2011. The legislation helps many of the provisions in that executive order stay in place, and gives the City Council a place in the governance of the program, Scott said in an interview earlier this year.

Read more at Technical.ly Baltimore

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