NY Bill Would Require Online State Records

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Micah Kellner, the New York State assemblyman who last year submitted a bill to provide a tax credit to open source developers, has now proposed the 'Open New York Act,' a law that would make it mandatory for state agencies to put almost all of their public records on the Internet. According to Kellner's office, the law would 'revolutionize the relationship between New Yorkers and their state government, requiring all state agencies to make their records available through a central website — where the data can be used by activists, entrepreneurs, and others to create a host of applications useful in everyday life.' The Open Government Foundation, Citizens Union, and New York Public Interest Research Group all support the bill."

Comments

Where will the money come from

[jellomizer]

NY doesn't have a lot of money right now. Every group that gets money from the state is botching and moaning that they are not getting enough. So let's spread the thinner to pay for a new project won't help.

There is the argument if you give people these jobs you will help the echonomy. However if this were to go across it would probably in Albany NY (you know the state capital that is about 200 miles from the city) where honestly has fared the recession rather well so these extra jobs won't have such a pronounced efffect in the echonomy.