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Advocates and Doris back central FOIL portal bill; Doris urges change and flags resource needs
Summary
Intro 12—5 would codify and expand the city—s open records portal; advocates and the Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) testified in support but DORIS said several statutory requirements would require additional resources or are infeasible.
Council Member Helen Brewer introduced Intro 12—5, which would require the Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) to develop and maintain a centralized, publicly accessible online portal to intake, track and post Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests and agency responses.
Pauline Toole, commissioner of DORIS, told the joint committee that the department already operates an open records portal and that "our existing portal meets many of the requirements" set out in the proposed law. Toole said the department—s portal has received more than 526,000 FOIL requests and that 53 agencies currently use the portal; she said the portal shows submission and acknowledgment dates and…
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