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Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board unveils interactive Active Rules Tracker to improve public access
Summary
The Liquor and Cannabis Board’s research team demonstrated a new Active Rules Tracker that centralizes rule projects, petitions and past rulemaking outcomes; the dashboard lists 12 open projects and is live on the agency website to simplify public engagement.
The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board on Jan. 7 unveiled an interactive Active Rules Tracker intended to make the agency’s rulemaking process easier to follow and to encourage public participation.
Research program lead Dr. Sarah Oke introduced the tracker, saying it "transforms the way people can understand what rules projects are currently ongoing and recently completed, as well as how they can participate in the rulemaking process." The tool is published on the agency’s website and linked from the rules and research pages.
The board’s research analyst, Dr. Nick Glodoski, demonstrated the tracker’s landing page, filters and project pages. He showed summary statistics and told the board, "There are currently 12 open rule projects," adding that the tool also displays petitions received and past rulemaking outcomes. The tracker includes pages for open projects, a petitions table with links to the board’s official responses, and a historical look-back with time‑to‑complete metrics.
Glodoski said users can filter by topic (for example, cannabis) and by origin (legislature, petition or internal) and that email links prefill the rules‑team address and project name to make it easier to submit comments. Dr. Oke said a final round of user testing involved about 15 people drawn from tribal governments, state agencies, public health and industry stakeholders.
Board members praised the product. Board member Garrett called it "detailed, thorough, and thought through," and board member Holmes asked how far back the tracker’s data goes; staff said it currently reaches the start of fiscal year 2025 (July 2024) and that adding older records will require additional standardization work.
The board discussed the tracker’s potential as a model for other agencies and thanked the research and rules teams for the collaborative effort. The board did not take any formal action on the tracker during the meeting; staff said the tool will continue to be developed and expanded to include more historical records over time.
The tracker is available via the Liquor and Cannabis Board’s website under rules and research pages; staff directed stakeholders to those pages for project details and stakeholder session dates.
