Pacific Standard spoke with Camille Fassett, a researcher with Lucy Parsons Labs, about the OpenOversight program—a public database indexing law enforcement officers by name, photo, incidents, and more.
The White House commission on voter fraud plans to run states' voter rolls against federal databases to find potential fraudulent registrations — a move experts say will result in thousands of errors and could distort fraud.
In parsing the meaning of “open government,” citizens weigh the availability of information against the transparency of creating it. It’s a rare grammar debate that affects the course of democracy.