Sad news from Andrew Gilmartin, who in his most recent posting to South Kingstown, RI Now, writes:
Yesterday night the Town of South Kingstown Council voted against the “Automatic Open Records†petition funding the “Automatic Open Records†Committee outlined in my letter to the Town Council on March 30, 2009. The general tenor of the comments were that the goal is good but that funding it now is not good.
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I’d really like to see something like this go forward, even if the end result is simply our town publishing the raw data needed for people like Andrew and me to make our local government more open and accessible.