D.C. Council Member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) outlined progress that the District of Columbia has made in advancing transparency at the first Open Government Summit organized by the D.C. Open Government Coalition (DCOGC) on Tuesday, March 13.

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The D.C. Council's Committee on Government Operations and the Environment Monday marked up and sent to the full Council a 109-page ethics bill including establishment of the Open Government Office as an independent sub-agency of the proposed three member Board of Ethics and Government Accountability. The bill will...

  At a meeting of the D.C. City Council's Committee on Government Operations and the Environment Feb. 23, Robert Becker, chair of the Coalition's Government Relations Committee testified that the new open meetings statute should cover Advisory Neighborhood Commissions.

  When it passed the open...

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