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Board advances open-data ordinance to first reading, mayor’s office says it complements Sunshine Ordinance
Summary
An ordinance to establish a city open-data policy and require departments to post machine-readable datasets passed on first reading. The mayor’s office said the ordinance would complement, not replace, the Sunshine Ordinance by requiring specific datasets to be made publicly available in machine-readable form.
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed on first reading an ordinance that would establish San Francisco’s open-data policy, directing city departments to make defined datasets available to the public in machine-readable formats.
Jason Elliott of the mayor’s office told the board the ordinance would codify an executive directive previously issued by the mayor and would not conflict with the Sunshine Ordinance. He said open data…
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