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June 12, 2014
New York City Council Members Ben Kallos and Brad Lander Join San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell to Provide Joint Keynote Speech at MIT Media Lab Legal Hackathon
WHO: New York City Council Member Ben Kallos; City Council Member Brad Lander; San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell; Open Government luminaries including Seamus Kraft, Executive Director of Open Government Foundation, and Dazza Greenwood of MIT Media Lab, host of the Legal Hackathon
WHAT: Keynote speech “Hack the Law” at two-day conference and hackathon
WHEN: 12PM, Friday, June 13
WHERE:
WATCH ONLINE
http://legalhackathon.org/blog/hacking-the-law/
The link to watch online will appear shortly before the event.
MIT Media Lab
75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA
Software developer and New York City Council Member Ben Kallos along with New York City Council Member Brad Lander and San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell will provide a keynote speech entitled “Hack the Law," moderated by Seamus Kraft. The speech will be on the topic citizens taking back the law for themselves, will include a call to action before Council Member Kallos assists in supervising a “hack session” focused on producing tangible result. The MIT Legal Hackathon is an online participatory event. Learn more atLegalHackathon.org.
June 9, 2014
New York, New York – Council Members Lander, Vacca and Kallos advocated for a bill that would put all New York City law online in a searchable and user-friendly format at a City Council Joint Hearing of the Committees on Governmental Operations and Technology today, instead of being inaccessible in for-fee websites. Council Member Brad Lander, prime sponsor of Int. 149, Council Members Ben Kallos and James Vacca, also sponsors, heard support from good government advocates and civic technologists at the hearing.
June 9, 2014
New York, NY – Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and City Council Members Ben Kallos and James Vacca congratulated City Hall on a brand new FOIL Tracker (link) announced at a joint hearing of the City Council Committees on Technology and Governmental Operations. The Borough President and Council Members urged next steps in line with Counsel Maya Wiley's stated commitment to a Citywide FOIL Tracker, including passage of Intro 328, which would create a centralized, searchable website to track and process FOIL requests. The legislation seeks to address delays and inconsistencies in New York City’s FOIL compliance. Advocates, including good government groups Sunlight Foundation, Reinvent Albany, League of Women Voters and Participatory Politics Foundation, offered testimony in support of the legislation.
June 9, 2014
New York, NY – City Council Resolution 115 to support allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to serve on their local community boards passed through the City Council Committee on Governmental Operations today in a unanimous vote of the Committee's five members. The successful vote for resolution, co-sponsored by Council Members Ben Kallos, Ritchie Torres, Mark Levine and James Vacca, and introduced at the request of Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, signals New York City’s support of Senate bill S04142, sponsored by Senator Andrew Lanza and Assembly bill A02448sponsored by Assembly Member Nily Rozic, which would amend the Public Officers Law and City Charter to allow youth to serve.
June 5, 2014
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May 29, 2014
New York, NY – Free and Open Source Software developer turned New York City Council Member Ben Kallos today introduced legislation mandating a preference for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and creating a Civic Commons website to facilitate collaborative purchasing of software between agencies, cities, states and the federal government to save taxpayer dollars.
May 29, 2014
The City Council today introduced two mapping transparency bills to make government information more meaningful by tying it to space and time.
May 29, 2014
Today, New York City Council Member Ben Kallos is introducing three bills designed to bring New York City’s public data into the 21st Century through increased transparency and accessibility online: “eNotices,” “Public Online Information Act" (POIA) and "City Record On-Line" (CROL).
May 22, 2014
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, State Senator Liz Krueger, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Assembly Member Dan Quart, Council Member Dan Garodnick and Council Member Ben Kallos today urgently requested a 60-day pause to review the exploding costs of the 91st St. Marine Transfer Station similar to the recent pause and review of the costly and delayed Emergency Communications Transformation Program.
May 19, 2014
New York, New York – Following Mayor de Blasio's keynote address at Internet Week New York today, Council Member Ben Kallos (District Five, Manhattan), Chair of the New York City Council Committee on Governmental Operations, released the following statement:
