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- Federal Register Notice on 11/19/2024 providing notice of the OG FAC meetings on December 11, 2024, January 8, 2025, and February 7, 2025.
- NAP 6.0 Listening Session (10/9/2024)
- Federal Register Notice on 10/1/2024 providing notice of the OG FAC meetings on 10/18/2024 and 10/23/2024. (10/1/2024)
- Federal Register Notice on 9/12/2024 seeking public comment on the NAP by 11/12/2024. (9/12/2024) Go here for submitted comments.
- Open Government Secretariat email announcement regarding a RFI concerning the 6th NAP. (9/12/2024)
- OGS announcement of newly redesigned website. (8/29/2024)
- White House OIRA Report "Strengthening Public Participation in the Regulatory Process" (8/16/2024), Blogpost ([8/14/2024](Strengthening Public Participation in the Regulatory Process)), and Memorandum "Broadening Public Participation and Community Engagement in the Regulatory Process" (7/19/2023)
- 2023 Letter to President Biden on Advancing Ambitious New Commitments on Open Government to Defend Democracy
- 2021 Letter to President Biden on Making Transparency a Top Priority
- 2021 Letter with Open Questions on Transparency
- Blueprint for Accountability
- Accountability 2021
- Openness Floor (2011): Comments Submitted on the Development of the U.S. Action Plan for the Open Government Partnership by OpenTheGovernment.org, a Coalition Chaired by POGO
- Presidential Advisory Committee on Open Government (2010)
- Sunlight Foundation Blogposts on the Open Government Directive
- Sunlight Foundation Spreadsheet with Agency Open Government Plans
- OpenTheGovernment.org Audit of First Round of Open Government Plans
- 2025 Sixth National Action Plan is not yet completed
- 2022 Fifth National Action Plan
- 2019 Fourth National Action Plan
- 2015 Third National Action Plan -- Mid-term Self Assessment
- 2013 Second National Action Plan -- Final Self-Assessment
- 2011 First National Action Plan -- Final Self-Assessment
- 2025 OMB Memo M-25-07 on Broadening Public Participation and Community Engagement with the Federal Government
- 2025 OMB Guidance on the Open Government Data Act
- 2025 OMB Memo M-25-06 Reestablishing the Chief Data Officer Council
- 2016 OMB Memo on Agency Open Government Plans
- 2015 Public Participation Playbook
- 2013 OMB Memorandum on open data work
- December 2009 Open Government Directive
- January 21, 2009 FOIA Memorandum
- January 20, 2009 Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government
- Open Government Dashboard -- monitors and links to agency compliance with the OGD
- Blogposts on OpenGov
- 2015 White House Open Government Workshop
- 2014 on Public Participation
- Comments on National Action Plan 3.0
- Recommendations from Demand Progress to the Department of Justice on Items for Inclusion in its 2016 Open Government Plan
- How Agencies Can Improve Proactive Disclosure
- 2016 Sunlight’s recommendations for the Justice Department’s next Plan for Open Government
- Demand Progress Comments on 2015 National Action Plan
- First Model Plan -- Open The Government Civil Society Comments on NAP 2
- Second Model Plan -- Open the Government Civil Society Comments on NAP 3
- Third Model: Comments on GitHub for NAP 4
- Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act §7241 (2022) (P.L. 117-263) -- Requires agencies who are required by law to submit reports to Congress to also submit some of those reports to GPO's online repository, and tracks what reports are due and when they are submitted
- Periodically Listing Updates to Management (PLUM) Act §5321 (2022) (P.L. 117-263) -- Requires OPM to annually publish an online list of senior government officials, including appointed positions, including information about those individuals and whether the position is vacant
- Financial Data Transparency Act (2022) §5801 (P.L. 117-263) -- Requires federal financial regulatory agencies to adopt specified data standards with respect to format, searchability, and transparency
- Apportionment Transparency (2022) §204 (P.L. 117-328) -- Requires OMB to publish online each document apportioning an appropriation, including accompanying footnotes, in an open government data format
- Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act (2021) (P.L. 117-125) -- Requires federal judicial officers, bankruptcy judges, and magistrate judges to file periodic transaction reports disclosing certain securities transactions and for that information to be publicly disclosed online
- Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act (2021) (P.L. 117-40) -- Requires federal agencies to publish their Congressional Budget Justifications online and directs OMB to compile this into a single searchable website, and to track when the reports are submitted
- Corporate Transparency Act (2021) §6401 (P.L. 116-283) -- Requires certain business entities (each defined as a “reporting company”) to file information on their “beneficial owners” with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) of the U.S. Department of Treasury
- Taxpayers' Right to Know Act (2021) §9601 (P.L. 116-283) -- Requires OMB to create a public inventory of federal programs and provide for regular updates to the information
- Oversight.gov (2020) §621 (P.L. 116-6) Provides funding for Oversight.gov, a website containing reports from most federal Inspectors General
- Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2019 (2019) (P.L. 116-103) -- Requires the establishment and use of data standards for information reported by recipients of federal grants and the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.
- Taxpayer First Act (2019) §3101 (P.L. 116-25) -- Mandates electronic filing and online publication of 990 (non-profit) tax forms
- Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act §201 (2019) (P.L. 115-435) -- Defines the term open data, creates minimal standards for making federal government data available to the public, requires the federal government to use open data to improve decision making, and establishes and formalizes Chief Data Officer (CDO) at federal agencies, codifies data.gov
- GAO-IG Act (2019) (P.L. 115-331) -- Requires federal agencies to report in their annual Congressional Budget Justifications information about open and closed GAO recommendations
- Equal Access to Congressional Research Reports Act §154 (2018) (P.L. 115-141) -- Requires CRS Reports to be made publicly available as of the date of enactment
- Filing by Senate Candidates with Commission Division D, Title I (2018) (P.L. 115-244) -- Requires all Senate candidates to file their election reports electronically with the FEC
- FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 (2016) (P.L. 114-185) -- Strengths FOIA's public disclosure provisions, requires records requested 3 times to published online automatically, limits the timeframe wherein agencies can withhold agency communications, codifies FOIA.gov
- Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2016 (2016) (P.L. 114-302) -- Prohibits an FBI employee from taking or failing to take a personnel action (e.g., demotion) with respect to an FBI employee or applicant because of a protected disclosure, i.e., one concerning (1) a violation of a law, rule, or regulation; or (2) waste, fraud, or abuse.
- Declassification of Decisions, Orders, and Opinions of the FISA Court §402 (2015) (P.L. 114-23) -- Requires Declassification and Publication of Significant FISC Opinions, interpreted by DNI to only apply to Opinions from 2015 forward; § 602 Annual Reports By the Government -- Requires Disclosure of Significant Statistical Information about the use of surveillance authorities
- The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (2014) (P.L. 113-101) -- Establishes a website where the federal government discloses its expenditures and sets data standards for those disclosures
- Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protections (2013) Title VI (P.L. 113-126) -- Extends whistleblower protections to agencies the principal function of which is the conduct of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities; extends some reprisal protections; allows appeals of clearance determinations; creates a conflict of interest provision regarding an IG's transmission of communications to Congress; etc.
- STOCK Act (2012) (P.L. 112-105) -- Requires disclosures of stock trading by some government officials
- Reducing Overclassification Act (2010) (P.L. 111-258) -- requires DHS to train and educate law enforcement on responding to requests for classified material; require the DNI to standardize formats for un/classified intel products to promote sharing of those products; allows agency heads to reward employees for properly classifying documents; directs ISOO to assess whether agencies are properly administering classification practices; requires training for employees with original classification authority