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Committee advances open-data ordinance establishing DataSF, accepts privacy and licensing amendments
Summary
The committee advanced an ordinance to codify an open data policy and the DataSF portal, accepted amendments emphasizing consistency with privacy laws and COIT technical standards, and moved the ordinance to the full Board.
The San Francisco Government Audits & Oversight Committee on Oct. 28 advanced an ordinance to amend the San Francisco Administrative Code and formalize the city's open data policy, institutionalizing the DataSF portal and requiring departments to make appropriate datasets publicly available in machine-readable formats.
Jason Elliott of the Mayor's Office read proposed amendments into the record that require departments to make datasets available subject to Committee on Information Technology (COIT) rules and applicable law, to account for public datasets under departmental control in data plans, and for COIT to evaluate the feasibility of a generic license for city datasets. "Each City…
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