Matt Rumsey, Director, Advisory Committee on Transparency, Sunlight Foundation

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Matt Rumsey, Director, Advisory Committee on Transparency, Sunlight Foundation

The government has started releasing comprehensive indexes of data showing how agencies operate and conduct oversight. That's in response to a Freedom of Inform...

Federal News Network Staff

March 20, 2015 9:08 am

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The government has started releasing comprehensive indexes of data showing how agencies operate and conduct oversight. That’s in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Sunlight Foundation. It’s been more than a year in the making, and most of the data has never been publicly identified before. Matt Rumsey, the director of the Advisory Committee on Transparency at the Sunlight Foundation, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on just what’s in those indexes.