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Comprehensive Data Audit
Agencies should undertake a comprehensive audit of their information, and the processes they use to collect it. The audit should focus on providing a comprehensive inventory of all data collected by the agency, agency engagement online, and electronic record-keeping practices.

Why Is This Idea Important?

Without a comprehensive assessment of the datasets collected and handled by agencies, decisions about how to manage and open those datasets will be ill-informed.
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wondernugget 10 months ago
And who is going to spend hours and hours reading all the useless records that hide the what affects us.

Thousands of Chrysler Union employees (8 plants in 8 states) were fooled into voting for a contract that would eliminate there jobs at the end of this year and it was all because the 1 page that stated the closing of the plants was buried in the boxes and boxes of paper work so by the time it was realized, it was too late. This all happened with the reassurance of our president that those jobs would be safe. So ask yourself.....

Who will read all of this paper work so Americans can feel they aren't getting fooled again?
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