Federal databases to be made public in big win for transparency advocates

Published February 13, 2015 4:23pm ET



Possibly “the largest index of government data in the world” will be made public next month, a transparency advocacy group said Friday.

Comprehensive lists that show what information federal agencies hold, called Enterprise Data Inventories, will be released, according to the Sunlight Foundation. The decision follows a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the open-government advocacy group more than a year ago.

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