ICOG's Indiana Data Tracker Soft Launch
Today, 2:30pm EDT we'll be hosting a soft launch of our Indiana Data Tracker project. Continue to contact Governor Holcomb and demand a veto of HEA 1338.
Join us at 2:30pm EDT today (more dates in the coming weeks) for our soft launch of the Indiana Data Tracker website: https://indianadatatracker.org
Where: Zoom
Time: 2:30pm-3:00pm EDT
Topic: Show how you can use and help populate the Indiana Data Tracker site.
Indiana Data Tracker
The Indiana Data Tracker is a project of Indiana Coalition for Open Government, a nonprofit organization that promotes transparency at all levels of government in Indiana. This site makes it possible for the public to both discover and contribute knowledge about data (that is, metadata) maintained by government agencies.
By crowd-sourcing the information on the site, we aim to provide a constantly growing catalog of public data sets, whether they are available online or housed on internal government computers. The ultimate goal is to create a powerful tool for public accountability of Indiana government agencies. Only when citizens are aware of the kinds of information maintained by public officials can they request and use that information to evaluate the performance of the agencies created to serve them.
Members of the public are invited to search and browse the metadata collected here as well as submit information about data sets that aren’t here yet. The greater the participation, the more robust this resource will be, so please join us!
Contact Governor Holcomb and Demand a Veto of HEA 1338
Don’t let the Public Access Counselor’s office weaken.
Call and voice your demand for a veto: 317-232-4567
Email Form
If you haven’t been following HB 1338 (read the full bill here), there are grave changes to a variety of open government provisions in Indiana Code.
In particular, changes to the Public Access Counselor’s Office position that would make it an at-will appointment and changes for how advisory opinions can be created:
The public access counselor shall serve at the pleasure of the governor.
When issuing an advisory opinion, the public access counselor shall consider only:
(1) the public access laws, as plainly written; and
(2) valid opinions of Indiana courts.
We have highlighted different articles from State Affairs, Indiana Capital Chronicle, Indiana Citizen, IndyStar, and the Tribune-Star covering this bill, you can find all of the coverage here: https://indianacog.org/tag/hb1338/
If you have additional coverage, please share.
Thank you again for helping keep Indiana an transparent, open, and accountable state.