Sunshine week event March 19

 
The D.C. Open Government Coalition will hold the third annual
D.C. Open Government Summit March 19 at the National Press Club
to focus on transparency in neighborhoods and communities in the
District of Columbia.

 
The “D.C. Open Government Summit: Street View,” is a Sunshine Week
event featuring remarks by:

• Traci Hughes, the first director of the D.C. Office
  of Open Government
• Adam Tope, an advisory
  neighborhood commissioner, who will share the steps his
  ANC has taken to be more open and accessible to residents by
  live-streaming meetings and by putting its checkbook online so
  the public can see in real time how and when money is spent;
• Debbie Cenziper, a Washington Post reporter who used
  District records to uncover examples of
  residents losing their homes to foreclosure because of unpaid
  property taxes they may not have known about;
• Marie Drissel, a D.C. resident who regularly files FOIA
  requests and whose requests led to an investigation into
  possible corruption in awarding D.C.’s lottery contract; and
• Code for DC innovators who have used open government data and
  information to create useful tools for our daily lives, such
  as mapping restaurant health code violations, and tracking the
  District’s emergency response times.