Monday, March 3. 2008

Proposed CT Law Would Allow Contractors to Set the Price of State Data to the Public

An editorial in The Day (Hartford) is ok with one part of a new bill providing a few more details are added. That part of the bill restricts access to risky data held by utilities. It's the second part that's not ok and seems related to GIS: "Adjusting the Cost of Obtaining Public Records." The idea is that when such functions as creating a GIS are outsourced to the private sector, the cost of those data to the public be set in the contract. There are no limits to the potential charges. The head of the state's Freedom on Information Commission, Colleen M. Murphy, agrees this is not a good idea.

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