The New York World reports on the New York City Open Data Law of 2012, and includes a couple of choice quotes from a certain open government activist:
It is unclear what consequences agencies will face if they are not compliant with Local Law 11. “Ideally, someone would step up and be the policeman,” said Dominic Mauro, staff attorney for the good government group Reinvent Albany.
Mauro says that that a new administration will have to get on board, because the information tracked by city agencies ultimately belongs to the public. “Taxpayers fund the government and the government collects the data,” he said. “Its our data. We don’t pay taxes so we can not know what goes on.”
Aside from the double negative there at the end, this Mauro guy sounds both insightful and handsome.