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Yay: “…the bill requires the Department of the Treasury to establish an unique, dedicated, easily navigable Internet website which will offer to the public all
by goblin89 10y ago
Yay: “…the bill requires the Department of the Treasury to establish an unique, dedicated, easily navigable Internet website which will offer to the public all available appropriate[0] existing and future electronic data sets maintained by each State department and agency.”
Not so yay: generally nobody’s going to be liable for incomplete or inaccurate data, with an exception of “gross negligence, willful and wanton misconduct, or intentional misconduct”.
Understandable: “No personally identifiable information would be posted online”
Unclear: “State departments and agencies would not be required to make data sets available upon demand”
[0] It seems that the availability and appropriateness is where things might stall. What if a department gives the Treasurer a dataset full of personally identifiable information? They thus fulfill their duty per this bill, the dataset is available, and yet public sees nothing, unless Treasury goes an extra mile and takes care of anonymizing the dataset.
- jkingsbery 10y agoAgreed. Given how things work in NJ, I'm pretty skeptical real insight will come of this, much more likely to just be a PR thing for state agencies.