With the government lagging behind in using technology to provide better access to public data, transparency advocates are hoping two bills S.B. 573 and 272 will improve public involvement. The bills would provide machine-readable and downloadable information from websites open to the public. (Electronic Frontier Foundation, July 6, 2015, by Dave Maass)
Although several cities in California including San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego are leaders in open data, that enterprise has not extended to the state level with the exception of various state agencies, particularly the California Health and Human Services Agency. (Sunlight Foundation, April 8, 2015, by Emily Shaw)