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Thursday, April 08, 2010

How Are Federal Agencies Going To Help You Keep An Eye On Them?


Federal agencies are required today to post plans on how they'll be more transparent. Official White House PhotoToday marks another deadline on the federal transparency to-do list (pdf).

We’ve been following federal agencies’ progress toward greater openness as set out last December in a directive from the White House Office of Budget and Management.


By today, agencies must use their new open government Web pages to post plans laying out how they will achieve greater transparency. You can see a list of many open government Web pages on our Transparency Tracker.


Some of the plans we’ve looked at today are a bit vague when it comes to what agencies actually will to do to be more transparent – tossing around hip terms such as "goals," "strategy" and "accountability."


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