Re 26 27 29 30 31 QhA Councilmember Mary M. Cheh Co} ABILL, IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT O1 To amend the Freedom of Information Act to clatify procedure} information available to the public, to extend the time al Freedom of Information Act request, to clarify certain Information Act requirements, to establish the Open G resolve appeals regarding Freedom of Information Act requirements on public body Freedom of Information At activities, to clar bodies covered by the Freedom of Information Act; to include Advisory Neighborhood Commissions and oth body’s meeting is considered open only if members of tl to create a complaint process for instances of alleged ni right of action for an individual alleging non-complian Government Office Act to change the name to the Offi the Office’s roles and responsibilities, to require boards, make available certain information in a central location procedures for processing and tracking requests for pub} BEIT ENACTED BY THE COUN! “IL OF THE DIST} act may be cited as the “Strengthening Government Transpare! Sec. 2. The Freedom of Information Act of 1976, effect 96; D.C. Official Code § 2-531 et seq.), is amended as follows; (a) Section 202 (D.C. Official Code § 2-532) is amende (1) Subsection (2-2) is amended by adding a ne\ follows: “In its reasonable effort, the public body shall not limi places if there are additional sources that are likely to reveal th 1 incilmember David Grosso COLUMBIA for public bodies to make Ipublic body has to respond to a cemptions from Freedom of ‘ernment Office as the body to jequests, to clarify reporting the public {mend the Open Meetings Act to bodies, to require that a public he public are permitted to attend, in-compliance, (0 create a private ; to amend the Open le of Open Government, to clarify ‘commission, and task forces to lonline, and to create uniform ic records, ICT OF COLUMBIA, that this icy Amendment Act of 2017”. ive March 25, 1977 (D.C. Law 1- as follows: sentence at the end to read as its search to only one or more records requested and shall36 37 38 46 47 48 49 50 52 53 54 follow through on obvious leads to discover requested recor (2) Subsection (2-3) is amended as follows: (A) Strike the phrase “or collected” and collected” in its place. (3) A new subsection (a-4) is added to read as f “(a-4) A public body shall make datasets available in m4 public through a common web portal that shall be maintained ‘Technology Officer. Each public body shall be responsible fot required to be published in the web portal is accessible from tht (4) Subsection (b) is amended as follows (A) Strike the phrase “A public body mal sentence and insert “The Office may establish, and a public bo (B) New sentences are added at the end shall be furnished without charge if the costs of routine collecti likely to equal or exceed the amount of the fee. A denial of fee appealed under § 2-537 in the same manner as a denial of acce! (5) Subsection (b-1) is amended as follows: (A) The lead-in language is amended by agency or public body” and inserting the phrase “the Office” in (B) Paragraph (3) is amended by strikin; inserting a semicolon in its place. | (© Paragraph (4) is amended by striking a semicolon in its place. insert the phrase “, utilized, or ows: achine readable format to the ly the Office of the Chief ensuring that the information public body’s webpage.” establish and collect” in the first ly may collect,” in its place. read as follows: “Public records ion and processing of the fee are Iwaiver or reduction may be s to records.’ striking the phrase “the Mayor, an its place. the phrase “; and” at the end and the period at the end and inserting60 61 62 63 65 66 67 68 69 70 n 2 B 74 15 16 7 (D) New paragraphs (5) and (6) are adde| ““(6) For the purposes of this paragraph the term medi means a person that gathers information about current ¢ to read as follows: {a representative of the news vents or of potential interest to a segment of the public, and uses editorial skills to turn the raw materials into a distinct work, which is, in turn, distributed to an audience. A freelance journal representative of the news media’ if the journalist can demonst publication through an entity, whether or not the journalist is a publication contract would present a solid basis for such an ex, also consider the past publication record of the requester in mal “(6) A public body may recover the direct costs provided, that no fee may be collected by the public body if it f in accordance with subsections (c) of this section.”, (6) Subsect 1n (b-3) is amended by striking the p} appears. (7) Subsection (c) is amended as follows: (A) Strike the number “15” and insert the (B) New sentences are added at the end period shall commence on the date on which the request is first| component of the public body, but in any event not later than 3 received by any other component of the public body. All deter shall be published to the District of Columbia online FOIA pub] (8) A new subsection (c-1) is added to read as fo “(€-1) A person may request to inspect and copy a publi ist shall be regarded as ‘a fate a solid basis for expecting tually employed by the entity. A tation; the public body may ing such a determination; and incurred in conducting a searcl ils to timely respond to a request ase “agency or” wherever it number “20” in its place. read as follows: “The 20-day Ireceived by the appropriate \days after the request is first ‘nations and records supplied ic access library.”. lows: p record from any public body by